Gmail

Gmail is Google's entry into the webmail industry.

Officially known as Google Mail, Gmail was born on April 1st, 2004. Gmail was first just an invitation-only application, but was finally released to the general public in February of 2007, a little less than three years later. Initially only giving users 1 GB storage, Google quickly upped the number to 7200 MB to help combat Yahoo! Mail's change to offering its basic users free unlimited storage.

In 2008, Google introduced Google Labs to Gmail's interface, allowing users to add a series of tools to their accounts. One of the more noteworthy applications added in October 2008 was Mail Goggles. This application forces users to solve simple math problems before sending email while potentially intoxicating, preventing a user from "drunk emailing" someone that they could possibly regret later on.

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• Gmail fail! Please help!

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 648
  Gmail shame! My account was accessed and all my contacts were spammed. How do I keep this from happening again? Im not even sure the spam was really sent from my account:it doesnt show up in my sent folder. However there was an entry in account activity that Im pretty sure wasnt me accessing my account. I already ...
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• How to Access Gmail and Google Calendar with eM Client

  
  I Love Free Software — Authority: 137
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• iGmail app returns to the app store, now at version 2.1 with support for push notifications

  
  iPhonefreak — Authority: 575
  I mentioned the iGmail app a while back and received a pretty mixed bad of comments, but personally I liked it because it was not expensive, it offered an overlay that gave me some additional controls to move through my mail easier and because it ran in full screen which gave me a little more [...]
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• What Is Phishing And How It Relates To Your Webmail Credentials ?

  
  vhxn.com — Authority: 441
  Recently, the webmail industry experienced what was believed to be a phishing incident where several thousands of credentials from Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail accounts were exposed on a third-party site. For those who are wondering exactly what phishing is, and how it relates to general spam: phishing  is a criminally ...
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• Campaigns via Email

  
  $ucce$$-Team — Authority: 146
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• I Can Quit Anytime I Want!

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 746
  Internet Vices : various Web 2.0 sites and services, recast as drugs and alcohol. For example, myspace "is huffing spray paint: Destroys any chance of looking credible. You will be perceived as having the mindset of a middle schooler, and probably do."
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• Gmail Creator Thinks Email Will Last Forever. And Hasn’t Tried Google Wave.

  
  TechCrunch — Authority: 905
  “ Email is not going to disappear. Possibly ever. Until the robots kill us all. ” – Paul Buchheit , creator of Gmail, co-founder of FriendFeed, currently doing vague infrastructure things at Facebook. Today, at our RealTime CrunchUp event in San Francisco, Buchheit and Threadsy founder Rob Goldman sat down ...
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• Are gmail addresses private?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 648
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  17 hours ago

• Google is stealing your information!

  
  TECHGEEK.com.au — Authority: 128
  Just when you thought Google could get any more creepy, just look at this video from the TV Show "Hungry Beast" showing in Australia on the ABC Television network. Maybe you should think twice about pushing that signup button to gMail or pushing that "Sign up to latitude" on your iPhone. I know I havent!
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• New GMail Icons Let you Know Which Friends Use Android

  
  PhoneArea.net — Authority: 498
  Those who use GMail regularly be familiar with the Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) Talk sidebar showing which of your friends are online, as well as the wide variety of customization options…
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• Adobe’s Upgrades Acrobat.com, Launches New Mobile App

  
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• My Technological Job Moment

  
  zoecarnate — Authority: 411
  This has just not been my week, technologically speaking. I would never compare my life to Job in the ‘real world;’ this past week, a five-year-old girl was killed in Raleigh , after being prostituted by her mother for an undetermined time – unbeknownst to her father. The economy is allegedly recovering while ...
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• Patrick MobergBrilliant.

  
  Ben Delaney — Authority: 128
  Patrick Moberg Brilliant.
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• Gmail users tweet twice as much

  
  The Next Web — Authority: 774
  A recent study by RapLeaf shows that Twitter and LinkedIn are at least twice as popular amongst Gmail users as they are with Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL users. RapLeaf looked at social network memberships of 120,000 users of AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo accounts to gauge where they spend time online and found that AOL ...
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• Fix Unread Gmail Favicons in Better Gmail 2 and Greasemonkey [Updates]

  
  Lifehacker — Authority: 820
  Firefox: Gmail recently made a few tweaks to its message count API, leaving tools like the favicon message indictors by Eric Bogs and Peter Wooley , along with Ginas own Better Gmail 2 Firefox extension , broken. Now theyre fixed. Bogs and Wooley, whose clever user scripts cleverly show your unread message count ...
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• USB Speaker In Big Panda Skull Shape !

  
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  If you are lover to have gadgets like Panda, this will be the greatest news for you. This is a Panda Skull USB Drive from Solid Alliance and the Baby Panda USB Flash Drive. The suggested price of the USB Big Panda Speaker is just $27. Visit the link and purchase the gadget. Some Important Product ...
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• Better Gmail Addon Brings Extra Features For Your Gmail !

  
  vhxn.com — Authority: 441
  Now using Better Gmail Firefox addon you can add extra features to your Gmail such as Hierarchical labels, an unread messages icon on your browser tab, file attachments icons etc. This addon compiles the best Greasemonkey user scripts for Gmail into a single package, comprising Add Row Highlights : You can get the ...
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• Use Gmail as Your Default Mail Application (Quick Tip)

  
  Firefox Facts — Authority: 123
  There are a lot of Firefox features that don’t get much press, or are quickly forgotten about.  For example, did you know that you could switch to using Gmail or Yahoo! Mail as your default mail client (to handle those mailto links)? To chance your settings, go to Tools, Options and then click on the Applications ...
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