The total number of vulnerabilities in the four security bulletins tallied an astounding 20 separate flaws in Windows and Outlook Express

personal open tracking for email

“In short, the only way to use Gmail is the way that the Gmail designers use Gmail. The only way Gmail could be less accessible is if the entire site were built in Flash”

“There are two parts to a successful data mine; the mechanism that prepares the document and the algorithm that looks for patterns”

“Inserting ads on the fly requires a chain of directories, databases and logs, and a long memory. Those auditing trails could be correlated with data collected from Google’s search site or social networking site Orkut, privacy advocates warn”

“These terms don’t restate the law. They sweep it aside…”

“Google’s proposed Gmail service and the practices and policies of its business units raise significant and troubling questions”

“Google historically has operated by a simple guiding rule, according to a January 2003 Wired article: Don’t be evil. As its reach grows, the company increasingly may be called upon to prove its loyalty to that rule”

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“the story is about seemingly incremental features that are actually massively expensive for others to match, and the platform that Google is building which makes it cheaper and easier for them to develop and run web-scale applications than anyone else”

“here are a few Gmail screenshots, featuring conversation threading and collapsable cards”

“Throughout the day, I kept wondering, “Could this be an April Fool’s joke?” Since they announced on April 1, I was essentially thinking about Gmail the whole day”

real or fake, you decide

Zoe is an open-source email platform: “The goal here is to do for email (starting with your personal mailbox) what Google did for the web… The Google principle: It doesn’t matter where information is because I can get to it with a keystroke”

Dropload is a place for you to drop your files off and have them picked up by someone else at a later time.

MailFeed is a PHP script that checks a POP3, IMAP, or NNTP mailbox on demand and returns an RSS feed containing the messages in the mailbox