How well would all of these tie in with android or some other mobile OS?
Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and more
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Re: Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and more
#12Are there any good alternatives to Google Calendar? If not, seems like there may be a gap in the market for a next generation calendar service, as the core of Google Calendar has been the same for a while, I'm sure there must be some innovation available there.
Re: Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and more
#13I recently switched from Gmail to Fastmail.fm for much the same reasons as the OP. Fastmail.fm managed to migrate 30k emails without so much as a sweat.
I still haven't worked out what I'm going to do about Google Reader :(
Re: Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and more
#14Anyone using hosted.im? I'm planning to switch to that one too. Moved away from mail / calendars etc a while ago. Talk has been keeping me attached. If I switch my domain to another XMPP provider using the same email address as in my google apps account, will the migration be seamless for my contacts (who are still using Google talk)?
I would think the service you move to would need your friends list in order for you to be able to communicate without re-authorizing everyone.
Since I didn't have Talk set up on my own domain, I'm SOL on that front. I just have to get everyone to re-authorize me.
Re: Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and more
#15Fastmail.fm seemed to be good till I read the fine print. For the personal account you have
100 MB email storage, 2 MB file storage
Kinda reminds me of the nineties and not in a good way :-)
Re: Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and more
#16I'd never heard of Lavabit before; it looks like they're still operational, although their website hasn't been updated much since around 2007. Looks interesting.
I'd really like to see a high-quality secure email provider get wide adoption.
Re: Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and more
#17I'm wondering if there's a twilio based replacement for google voice. It's got most of the building blocks.
There are plenty of paid replacements for Google Voice, so a Twilio one would fit right in. However, I suspect it's the free aspect that everyone's bemoaning. :-)
I haven't seen a lot of voice to sms services, or SMS forwarding. Getting SMS-enabled voip trunks is hard, or at least was hard the last time I checked (admittedly a few years ago)
Re: Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and more
#18Fastmail.fm seemed to be good till I read the fine print. For the personal account you have 100 MB email storage, 2 MB file storage Kinda reminds me of the nineties and not in a good way :-)
The $40/year account gives you 10gb of storage. It's comparable with Google Apps, and really $40/year is a totally fair price for something as important as email.
Re: Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and more
#19I've been eyeing some of the some of the Zimbra hosts (01.com, xmission.com) as a possible home for my email accounts, as we've been testing Zimbra at my day job for a possible Exchange replacement and I've liked the experience so far. Anyone have experiences with Zimbra (and the hosts) to share?
Re: Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and more
#20You have to be biting your tongue awfully hard to shoot off "Google is, in other words, the new AOL." He admits all of the services are not complete alternatives, save for maybe RSS readers. In other words, either 99% of users can't manage to use these non-alternatives for reasons like calendar and contacts not syncing, or they already don't use the product like RSS, or they definitely won't be able to run their own server.
Not to mention, I would tip my hat to Google for forcing every one of these "alternatives" to be better, because before Google, these services sucked. AOL sucked. MS sucked. OSS sucked. Firefox sucked -- thanks Chrome.
These are not the alternatives you're looking for. People should definitely care about their privacy, and they should definitely live on platforms that encourage interop. However, these articles focus far too much on trying to frame Google as some evil actor, when we could be championing everything Google has done well and how their competitors -- alternatives -- should be doing better.