Gmail has certainly hit the blogosphere recently, with a lot of noise from users having all their e-mails deleted. It seems it was a fairly isolated event though, with 60 or so users being the case according to Google’s response over at TechCrunch.
Gmail, being the Hotmail of Web 2.0, have had its problems, but since it’s still in beta, and still free, I find it hard to make too much noise really.
And now they want to bury Outlook once and for all, with cupoming POP3 downloading support. That is, you’ll be able to use Gmail as you e-mail program to download POP3 mail accounts to Gmail, just like you do with Outlook. Now that’s a feature I’ve been craving, although I already mimic it with setting up forwards from my POP3 accounts and sending e-mails with them as well through other account settings in Gmail. But actually downloading them is new, and pretty nifty if you ask me. Some users have gotten the opportunity to try this feature out, read about it at Google Operating System.
Now, please Google, for 2007, how about you actually make Gmail, Calendar, Docs & Spreadsheets and Reader to work nicely together, easily browsed and so on? Go from lots of services to left and right, to a truly packaged solution, please. Thank you, and bye-bye Outlook.
Originally posted on December 29, 2006 @ 9:00 am