gmail: ShortFormBlog

10:54 • 1 year ago

Tags: gmail google google mail spring cleaning e-mail from huffingtonpost 90 • Permalink

huffingtonpost:

good:

This spring, why not beautify and simplify your inbox, the electronic manifestation of your whole life?
Our Gmail insider is here to give you options other than “slash and burn.”

This is very necessary for the upcoming week.

We have a folder set aside for most of the advertising we get. As well as a folder set aside for news alerts (HuffPo, admittedly, sends a lot of them, heh). Cleaned things up significantly.

good:

This spring, why not beautify and simplify your inbox, the electronic manifestation of your whole life?

Our Gmail insider is here to give you options other than “slash and burn.”

This is very necessary for the upcoming week.

We have a folder set aside for most of the advertising we get. As well as a folder set aside for news alerts (HuffPo, admittedly, sends a lot of them, heh). Cleaned things up significantly.

22:40 • 1 year ago

Three things you need to know about Google’s privacy policy changes

Tags: gmail google google docs google privacy google privacy policy picasa privacy Tech 51 • Permalink

one Google consolidated its privacy policies from over 70+ to one; the change took effect today, covering services like Gmail, Google+, Google Docs and Picasa. It will also combine information from across all accounts.
two “We can provide reminders that you’re going to be late for a meeting based on your location, your calendar and an understanding of what the traffic is like that day,” said Google’s blog. Creepy or not?
threeYou can remove your Google search history, but the company could still be “gathering and storing this information and using it for internal purposes.” It often gives users’ personal info to the government. source

» An advertising play: “We can provide more relevant ads too,” Google points out. “For example, it’s January, but maybe you’re not a gym person, so fitness ads aren’t that useful to you.” More relevant for users, possibly, but more relevant for advertisers, too? It’ll be interesting to see what happens a few months down the line with this policy.

Read ShortFormBlog • Follow

14:46 • 1 year ago

Tags: sarah palin sarah's inbox sunlight foundation genius ideas awesome gmail 15 • Permalink

To the Sunlight Foundation: This idea (Sarah’s Inbox) is incredibly inspired and you should be proud of each other. However, didn’t Palin use a Yahoo account, not Gmail? By the way, the explanation for how they came up with this idea to present Sarah Palin’s e-mails is over here.

14:59 • 1 year ago

FBI investigating China for hacking job

Tags: china gmail gmail hack hack hacking News technology 12 • Permalink

cause Hackers went after Gmail, but didn’t compromise many accounts. However, some of the hacked accounts belong to some pretty high-ranking officials here in the U.S. Google claims that the hack originated in China, and the accounts have since been secured.
effect The FBI is investigating the hacking, which the Chinese government is saying that they had nothing to do with. However, Google believes the attack originated from the same city as one that targeted U.S. companies last year, including Google. source

10:33 • 2 years ago

Tags: china gmail google google china hacking jasmine revolution 3 • Permalink

This is an unacceptable accusation.

China Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu • Regarding Google’s claim that China has been infiltrating users’ Gmail accounts lately. We bet you’re wondering if she had any elaboration on this quote, considering its brevity. But, no, she didn’t. That’s all she said. Kinda awkward, isn’t it? source (via • follow)

Follow us on Facebook:

10:24 • 2 years ago

Google: China’s messing with users’ Gmail accounts

Tags: china gmail google google china hacking jasmine revolution 13 • Permalink

then Google reported they had been victim of cyberattacks around January of last year. Come to find out it was China. They made a big stink about it, had their access temporarily revoked in China, and eventually moved to Hong Kong. It was kind of a big deal.
now In the wake of potential Jasmine Revolution uprisings, Google’s now accusing China of messing with Gmail — hurting users’ abilities to send e-mails and mark them read. Google thinks China is using a vulnerability in IE to compromise Gmail’s usability. source

11:10 • 2 years ago

Fortunately they have backups: Google explains that Gmail hiccup

Tags: cloud computing gmail gmail bugs gmail errors google google glitches 7 • Permalink

what Thousands of people lost access to their Gmail accounts recently. When they got back into the accounts, they were empty. Yikes. (This is our nightmare.)
why Google explains that a bug caused the issue, and that although they lost several copies of the data, they fortunately had a backup that was disconnected from the cloud. source

10:06 • 2 years ago

Tags: gmail deleted e-mails glitches cloud computing from cheatsheet 17 • Permalink

Were you part of the 0.08% of Gmail users whose emails were accidentally deleted because of a glitch?

We would have to kill someone if that happened to us.

17:56 • 2 years ago

FBI agents seize the wrong email account

Tags: fbi gmail oleg Nikolaenko search warrants Permalink

good The FBI obtained a warrant to seize the emails of prolific Internet spammer Oleg Nikolaenko, wanted on a felony charge.
bad Due to a typo, they accidentally seized the wrong Gmail account (the FBI agent in charge dropped an ‘n’ by mistake).
bashfulThat agent now has to go back to federal court and get another search warrant - this time for the right email address. source

Uh-oh: Is Facebook prepping to attack Gmail head-on?

Tags: e-mail facebook gmail gmail contacts google google contacts 4 • Permalink

issue Over the last week or so, Google and Facebook have been entwined in an argument over Facebook’s importing of Gmail contacts; Google wants them to open up, but Facebook instead has worked around Google’s roadblocks.
reason? So why has Facebook been so resistant to Google’s open-up-your-datastream advances? Well, it seems Facebook is about to launch some sort of messaging thing on Monday. Is it e-mail? Because if it is, that would explain a lot. source

11:17 • 2 years ago

Tags: contact lists contacts facebook Friends gmail google 4 • Permalink

That Facebook-Google fight over your friends gets nasty

The war over importing contacts escalates. The other day, Google decided to stop allowing Facebook to import their contacts, partly for competitive reasons. Facebook then devised a way around it that was actually pretty clever. Google has now put up this scare page to let people know that no, you shouldn’t offer your data to Facebook so quickly. So, why won’t Facebook bend on this issue again? And what does this mean for other services that aren’t Google? Well, a key Facebook engineer argues that Google doesn’t practice what it’s preaching. This is a pretty drama-laden fight that keeps getting bigger. source

Follow ShortFormBlog

ShortFormBlog

Read a little. Learn a lot. • Ask Us Stuff! • FAQ • Archive • Timeline

Tagged: gmail

Our best freaking stuff right now: