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i@yourname.com Solves the problem you raised.
Doesn't pass the verbal test. Is that "I" or is that "eye" or is it "aye"?
Right. I use me@...
Google Deletes Last 7 Years Of User's Digital Life, Shrugs
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Re: Google Deletes Last 7 Years Of User's Digital Life, Shrugs
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Sounds like a great service. Then I went to use it... it doesn't backup email?! I got my contacts and some random stuff that I didn't know I had (and don't care about). But where's my couple of gigs of email? Is there a different service for that?
They provide IMAP and POP to let you download your email.
IMAP is horribly unreliable. POP discards information.
IMAP also discards information - I don't just want my email, I want my tagged email.
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#83I think there's an important lesson here that you can take home right now: If your primary email is an @gmail.com address, you have your head firmly in the lion's mouth. You can backup your data. You can have fallback tools and services. You cannot backup your identity. And if that identity is controlled by Google, you are tying your online existence for the duration to the foibles of a publically traded company with…
Another thing to think about is OAuth. If you if you lose an account at Google or Facebook that you've used to sign into another site, you lose them too.
Good thought.
Will not using G OAuth and probably delete all photos from my Picasa, now that they were automatically moved over to G+.
You never know what the automatic image scanner may think it has found in those photos that violates some G+ rules. I don't want to lose all my data in my G account, only because an automated scanner thinks my friend's face was a bare female breast.
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#84If you do anything remotely important via email, you should own you own domain name, and pay for a hosted email solution. I can suggest tuffmail. They are awesome and affordable.
How is this different from using Google Apps for your domain? You're simply giving your email hosting to tuffmail as opposed to google.
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#85I think there's an important lesson here that you can take home right now: If your primary email is an @gmail.com address, you have your head firmly in the lion's mouth. You can backup your data. You can have fallback tools and services. You cannot backup your identity. And if that identity is controlled by Google, you are tying your online existence for the duration to the foibles of a publically traded company with…
I hope I'm wrong, cause I really love email, but I don't think many people will care about it in 10 years. Most don't care much about it anymore today.
How can I reach you? You don't have Facebook!
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
They provide IMAP and POP to let you download your email.
IMAP is horribly unreliable. POP discards information. IMAP also discards information - I don't just want my email, I want my tagged email.
once you have it locally you have all the time in the world to retag it.
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I sympathize with your idealistic sort of thinking but it is unreasonable. Corporations (which is what Google is) are responsible to shareholders. The purpose of a corporation by definition is to maximize the bottom line for the shareholder. It has nothing to do with being good to people. The only way that this guy's problem will get solved is if enough people catch wind of his situation that it affects the fairly po…
"The purpose of a corporation by definition is to maximize the bottom line for the shareholder." No, the purpose of a corporation is to efficiently organize work. Fundamentally, corporations, and the entire economic system, exist for only one purpose: to create a better human society. Profit is the incentive to get them to work for the greater good, but it's not the end-goal. We've temporarily lost sight of that, but…
This is simply the definition I was given in business school. If you type in "purpose of a corporation" on Google, this is what you will get (which is comedically ironic in this situation).
"Efficiently organizing work" is what must be done as a by product or failure is ensured in this survival of the fittest capitalistic system.
I agree that the ethics are not what they should be in the corporate culture today, but that doesn't change the nature nor the purpose and definition of corporation.
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Also Vic Gundotra: http://twitter.com/#!/vicgundotra/status/94184809936601090
His reply gives me the shivers, partly because I'm afraid I won't be able (if I were ever to be locked out) to generate enough attention to warrant a response by Vic himself. But mostly because of the incredibly reassuring way he chose to word his response: "You bet on Google. We owe you better. I'm investigating."
that's refreshingly direct and personal in tone.
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#89I think there's an important lesson here that you can take home right now: If your primary email is an @gmail.com address, you have your head firmly in the lion's mouth. You can backup your data. You can have fallback tools and services. You cannot backup your identity. And if that identity is controlled by Google, you are tying your online existence for the duration to the foibles of a publically traded company with…
This made me concerned. I have my own domain which indeed uses Google Apps, but I just forward all my mails from there to my @gmail.com account. This needs to switch.
But you own your domain. In your case, if Google disabled your Gmail or Apps accounts, it'd be just a minor annoyance, because your e-mail address would still work after a DNS change.
Google owning your data is not the problem here, while you can backup it. The real problem is them owning your identity.
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#90Startup idea: Sync all Google services with local hard drive
These guys look close: