Posted by Ian Holsman
In a nice article in APC Mag they discuss how the standard corporate user is sick of these tiny email quotas and are just forwarding their things to gmail (and making Microsoft exchange redundant).
nothing too new in the product announcement, but the comments are interesting.
Posted by Ian Holsman
and I’m going to have to pay the piper eventually.
I just noticed I am sitting at 32% capacity, up from about 6% that I was at 6 months ago. With all this limitless space and measly ability to only delete 50 things at a time I can see a point in the near future when I will be totally screwed.
why? well.. I have about 6000 ‘conversations’ sitting in email.. some are important, some aren’t I just use ‘search’ to find the old stuff.. it’s great. I hardly delete anything and I have a couple of mailing lists going into it which I skim through.
but what happens when my gmail gets full (probably at the end of the year) am I going to have to go on a massive diet, or will I switch my alias to another gmail account and start filling it up? . and then switch everything over to that.. talk about a PITA.
By making it so hard to delete email and discouraging people to delete them google has is going to have a whole heap of unhappy ‘fat’ inboxes in 1Q 2007.. unless it keeps on giving away more disk space.
Have you thought about what you will do when you reach 99% capacity?
when I have a spare day I’m going to just suck it into mail.app and wipe it.. diets are good!
Posted by Ian Holsman
Google’s Gmail will be using a innovative method to confirm a person’s details, by requiring a person receive a SMS on their mobile phone.
Normally web sites require a confirmation key (double-opt-in), which is sent to you via an existing email address to confirm you are a person, or use a captcha-encoded image that you need to type in.
This way google has a way to directly connect a ‘virtual’ person with a ‘real’ one.
It will be interesting to see if other companies go down this route, especially since Captcha isn’t as effective as one would have hoped.
Personally I liked paypal’s method of depositing a couple of cents into your account and you telling them how much it was the best.
Anyone know of any other ways web sites are using to proove that it really is a person on the other end of the connection?