September 2010
3 posts
Gmail’s Permanent Failure: Only Humans Can Build...
Editor’s note: Guest author Adam Rifkin is a Silicon Valley veteran who organizes a networking group for entrepreneurial engineers called 106 Miles. In this post he argues that Gmail is perhaps not the best vessel for Google’s social ambitions. Last week was marred for me by a temporary but super-painful Gmail failure, and the software’s behavior points to why a “more social” Gmail would...
Use Google Storage as a One-Time Cost, Lifetime...
Use Google Storage as a One-Time Cost, Lifetime Backup Solution You can get extra Gmail storage pretty cheaply from Google, but eagle-eyed reader gthing lets us know that you have read access to that storage even after you cancel your subscription. You have read and write access to your storage for an entire year after paying, but if you choose not to renew,...
In Defense of Links, part three: In links we trust...
This is the third post in a three-part series. The first part was Nick Carr, hypertext and delinkification. The second part was Money changes everything. Nick Carr, like the rest of the “Web rots our brains” contingent, views links as primarily subtractive and destructive. Links direct us away from where we are to somewhere else on the Web. They impede our concentration, degrade our...