There are so very, very few sites out there that use Gears that someone announcing a Gears-enabled site to the Gears-users listserv isn't spam. Nor was the message automated. It was an invitation for Gears users to participate in a private beta of a commercial site that is using Gears to provide offline capabilities. Seems perfectly appropriate for this list.
Chris didn't even mention what the product does or how it benefits anybody or anything that sounds like he's secretly trying to sell us something, but only mentioned his gratitude for Gears and this listserv. If someone is maintaining a list of sites, commercial or otherwise, using Gears, it'd be great to see it. Other than Google apps, Remember The Milk, and Wordpress, I can't even think of other sites using it. And widespread adoption is important to all of us. I was trying to convince developers of another Open Source project to implement Gears to speed up the site, and got a lot of pushback, saying that it wasn't safe to download. Anyway, to each his/her own, but I like hearing about sites, commercial or otherwise, who successfully implement Gears. Tac On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Eduard Martini<[email protected]> wrote: > > Maybe, if you tell us more about how you "took > advantage of Google Gears", this wouldn't be free advertise. But, as > it is, brings nothing new to this group, so I am reporting as spam. > > > On Jul 31, 7:50 am, Chris from Bloom Apps <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> My name is Chris from Bloom Apps (http://bloomapps.com). In just a few >> hours, we're launching our first web app that happens to take >> advantage of Google Gears. I just wanted to say thank you to the >> community and to Google for putting together great technology and >> letting the world use it. >> >> For now, we're in private beta, but if you're interested in trying it >> out, head to our website and sign up for an invite. We're sending out >> batches over the next several weeks before we launch 1.0. >> >> Thanks, >> Chrishttp://bloomapps.com
