As a Gmail user, I have a number of free Gmail accounts to give away.
So this message is my attempt to give them away to folks who work
in photography, radio, community based media or ICT... preferably (but
not necessarily) in developing countries. One reason is that media
folks often need to send larger files like photographs and audio files
(especially when doing freelance work to support their non-commercial
work).
You can pass this on to others who are not subscribers to this
e-mail list... if they fit my criteria. When asking for an account...
you MUST tell me why you should get one (in English or French).
Google says that with Gmail, you can send and receive messages up
to 10 megabytes (MB) in size. However, the precise amount allowable
will depend on the attachment.
When you add an attachment, the size of a file may increase
because transport encodings are automatically added. (Transport
encodings are the information that allows your message to be safely
sent and read.)
This means that in some cases, attachments that are 6 to 10MB in
size may push the total message size above 10MB. When this happens,
Gmail displays a warning that your message exceeds the 10MB limit.
Gmail is a free, search-based webmail service that includes 1,000
megabytes (1 gigabyte) of storage. The backbone of Gmail is a powerful
Google search engine that quickly finds any message an account owner
has ever sent or received. That means there's no need to file messages
in order to find them again.
When Gmail displays an email, it automatically shows all the
replies to that email as well, so users can view a message in the
context of a conversation. There are no pop-ups or untargeted banner
ads in Gmail, which places relevant text ads and links to related web
pages adjacent to email messages. (As they are text only, they do not
greatly increase your page loading times like they do in Hotmail or
Yahoomail)
Also.. you need a recent browser to use G-mail as it makes extensive
use of _javascript_s....
_javascript_ and cookies must be enabled on all browsers
Supported Browsers:
- Microsoft IE 5.5+ (Windows )
- Netscape 7.1+ (Windows Mac Linux )
- Mozilla 1.4+ (Windows Mac Linux )
- Mozilla Firefox 0.8+ (Windows Mac Linux )
- Safari 1.2.1+ (Mac )
Also.. you need a recent browser to use G-mail as it makes extensive
use of _javascript_s....
_javascript_ and cookies must be enabled on all browsers
Supported Browsers:
- Microsoft IE 5.5+ (Windows )
- Netscape 7.1+ (Windows Mac Linux )
- Mozilla 1.4+ (Windows Mac Linux )
- Mozilla Firefox 0.8+ (Windows Mac Linux )
- Safari 1.2.1+ (Mac )
So if you would like a free Gmail account...
send me a message telling me why you could use one to my Gmail account
at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
George]
E-mail is the new database
By Joia Shillingford
BBC News business reporter
[excerpt]
"If a friend is excited about a concert and that gives me an idea for
a birthday gift, I will store the info on e-mail," says Georges
Harik, the man in charge of search-engine Google's Gmail service.
Stuart Anderson, Microsoft's Hotmail business manager in the UK,
keeps online shopping receipts in his mailbox in case he has to query
anything later.
"People are keeping a lot more information in their e-mail accounts
for retrieval at a later date," says Yahoo!
Web-based e-mail services like Hotmail, Yahoo!, Gmail and AOL Mail on
the Web are becoming databases by default as a growing number of
people use them, to store data and photos so they can retrieve them
from anywhere.
Growing trend
The trend has become more pronounced as the services have
dramatically increased their storage capacity in response to upstart
Gmail offering a free service with 1,000 megabytes (Mb) of storage.
"E-mail is a way of interacting not just with others, but also with
yourself, " says Mr Harik, who is director of Googlettes (new Google
services). "You want to remember something, so you send it to your
mailbox."
For all but the very organised, old e-mails will contain phone
numbers that haven't been entered into a diary, names and addresses
of contacts, meeting or customer information, useful statistics or
competitor information and photos of products and people.
The market for web-based e-mail services is still growing. "In the
George]
E-mail is the new database
By Joia Shillingford
BBC News business reporter
[excerpt]
"If a friend is excited about a concert and that gives me an idea for
a birthday gift, I will store the info on e-mail," says Georges
Harik, the man in charge of search-engine Google's Gmail service.
Stuart Anderson, Microsoft's Hotmail business manager in the UK,
keeps online shopping receipts in his mailbox in case he has to query
anything later.
"People are keeping a lot more information in their e-mail accounts
for retrieval at a later date," says Yahoo!
Web-based e-mail services like Hotmail, Yahoo!, Gmail and AOL Mail on
the Web are becoming databases by default as a growing number of
people use them, to store data and photos so they can retrieve them
from anywhere.
Growing trend
The trend has become more pronounced as the services have
dramatically increased their storage capacity in response to upstart
Gmail offering a free service with 1,000 megabytes (Mb) of storage.
"E-mail is a way of interacting not just with others, but also with
yourself, " says Mr Harik, who is director of Googlettes (new Google
services). "You want to remember something, so you send it to your
mailbox."
For all but the very organised, old e-mails will contain phone
numbers that haven't been entered into a diary, names and addresses
of contacts, meeting or customer information, useful statistics or
competitor information and photos of products and people.
The market for web-based e-mail services is still growing. "In the
US, it grew 3% between April and November 2004," said
Andreas
Gutjahr, marketing manager, UK & Germany, for Neilsen//NetRatings, a
Nasdaq-listed internet research company.
He says the number of minutes users spend connected is also rising.
Gutjahr, marketing manager, UK & Germany, for Neilsen//NetRatings, a
Nasdaq-listed internet research company.
He says the number of minutes users spend connected is also rising.
Money maker
But even where there is a small subscription fee, e-mail does not
make much money in itself. The prize is in the number of users - and
therefore advertisers - the providers can lure, not just to their
online mailboxes but also to portals like MSN and search engines like
Google and Yahoo!.
Gmail "will be very profitable for us," says Mr Harik.
But if web e-mail is being used for more than just sending and
receiving messages, how will this affect the market shares of the
different providers?
One possibility is that Hotmail's market dominance could be affected
by rival services better equipped to search through thousands of
e-mails.
Rival offerings
Both Yahoo! and Google have had internet search engines as part of
their core business from the start. So they are well placed to offer
efficient e-mail searching.
Gmail was designed with the idea of searching for unstructured,
unfiled information in mind. Mr Harik says: "We've taken away about
70%-80% of the reason to file things."
However, he believes: "It might still be worth filing e-mails related
to a specific project, where comprehensiveness (finding every single
message on a topic) was important."
"We have a labelling system that enables you to label messages in
more than one way. Also our conversation feature enables you to see
all the messages in an e-mail conversation."
Google will also search users' e-mails for keywords so that it can
place adverts in mailboxes relevant to users' interests. On the one
hand, this may make adverts more useful. On the other - though users'
identities won't be revealed to advertisers - it does raise privacy
concerns.
Gmail is currently available by invitation only as it is still under
development. But it recently increased the number of new users that
existing customers can invite - from 10 to 50 - suggesting it is
pushing Gmail out to more people.
Full text at
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/business/4167633.stm
So if you would like a free Gmail account...
send me a message telling me why you could use one to my Gmail account
at:
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GEORGE LESSARD
Information & Media Specialist
60�00'N, 111�58' W
P.O. Box 456
Fort Smith, Northwest Territories
X0E 0P0, Canada
Voice 867 872-3455
http://www.Skype.com P2PNetPhone: themediamentor
Home e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alternate e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MSN: MediaMentor (video cam & audio capable)
ICQ: 8501081
Home Pages http://mediamentor.notlong.com
Online Activities: http://www.web.ca/~media/index.html
Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/sets/
The MediaMentor's Photo Blog http://mediamentor.blogspot.com/
The MediaMentor's Blog Atom syndication
http://mediamentor.blogspot.com/atom.xml
The MediaMentor's Text Blog http://garpl.blogspot.com/
The MediaMentor's Text Blog Atom syndication http://garpl.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Member:
Canadian Association of Journalists http://www.caj.ca
Canadian Artists Representation / le Front des artistes canadiennes
http://www.carfac.ca/
Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective http://www.carcc.ca/
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." (Gandhi)
"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." (Max Depree)
"Try? There is not try. There is only do or not do." (Yoda)
"Life is fatal, but not serious" (Oscar
Wilde)
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