April 2004
April 1, 2004
Google to offer gigabyte of free e-mail (via) 1 GB of webmail with Google powered search? I would SO pay for that.
1GB of webmail from Google
Provided this story about a new 1 GB webmail service from Google isn’t a lame early April fool, I’m really psyched about it. A decent amount of space combined with Google’s search technology could really help me keep up to date with my email. Just off the top of my head, here’s my ideal hosted webmail feature list:
[... 245 words]Thanks a bundle, HP
I needed to scan a couple of signed documents at work, as a cheaper alternative to locating a fax machine. The office scanner is an HP scanjet 4570c. I plugged it in to the back of my PowerBook to see if it would work straight away, as pretty much everything else I’ve plugged in has. It didn’t. Fair enough, I can’t expect Apple to pre-install drivers for everything. So I headed over to HP’s site to grab the necessary software.
[... 415 words]SitePoint (.aspx). SitePoint finally switch to .NET.
Python on the C64. I thought it would never happen.
Web Standards Perk Up More Than Your Site. I wonder what they do for female developers.
mezzoblue: Sickening. A disgraceful act of design theft.
Time for Change. And another one!
Tips from the master. David Siegel is driving forward the boundaries of web design.
Google Copernicus Center is hiring. A job on the moon! (Does this mean gmail is real?)
MetaFilter goes Wiki. The logical convergence point for all social software.
Domain squatters stole homestarrunner.com! Be sure to wait on the page for a short while...
<Bleep>ing GarageBand! For the sake of the children.
Avi Rubin joins Diebold. Looks forward to hand picking the next president.
March For Web Standards. Grass roots campaigning.
My New Job at Microsoft Mobile Division. Russell joins Microsoft.
XCP—the XML Control Protocol. TCP/IP replacement—with added angle brackets!
Netscape Returns, Steals Back RSS, Merges With Rival CDF. An end to the syndication wars!
ThinkGeek :: PC HabiCase. Hamsters and computers, together at last.
Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes Of All Time (via) Our attempts are pretty poor compared to some of these.
Google: ’Gmail’ No Joke, Lunar Jobs Are. Announcing a new service on April 1st with a joke press release was bound to backfire.
Gawker Media, Weblogs, Inc. Network, and AlwaysOn merge, raise $12m from Fred Wilson; tap John Battelle as CEO. “the four of us came to the conclusion that together we could build the Time-Warner of blogging”
April 2, 2004
Lessons learnt. Follow up to my April Fool’s day post—what we can really learn from David Siegel.
Genuine Gmail screenshot (via) This one isn’t a hoax.
April 5, 2004
Microsoft “get” blogging
Who would have thought a year ago that Microsoft would be the company that took corporate blogging to the next level? Say what you like about the company itself, you can’t fault the quality and quantity of bloggers coming out of Redmond at the moment. Yesterday I stumbled across this fascinating blog that provides an insight in to Microsoft’s recruitment techniques. If you’re looking for a job at a high-tech company you can’t afford not to read this—they already have a bunch of resume advice, tips on what to wear to interviews and posts on subjects such as employee referrals, international recriting, phone screening and more.
[... 266 words]Personalisation? We’ve already got it
Vin Crosbie, a highly respected commentator on the online news industry, recently published his long awaited essay What Newspapers and Their Web Sites Must Do to Survive. It’s long but captivating and well researched; if you have any interest in the role of traditional newspapers on the web you should take the time to read it.
[... 350 words]gmail privacy policy. It sucks. Let’s hope they fix it before they launch.
Software Test Engineering @ Microsoft. More quality MS blogging.
Happy Birthday April! (via) This is really sweet :)
The Javascript Weblog. Dori Smith on all things Javascript.