even more GMail
I've got some extra GMail invites if anyone needs one.
A few interesting GMail hacks have appeared recently:
Gallina presents your GMail account as a blog, where original emails are shown as entries and replies to those emails are shown as comments. It's a proof-of-concept app and it's been slashdotted all to hell, but the idea that you should be able to abstract data into whatever form you are most comfortable with is a good one. I've been using Eudora as my main email client for over a decade, and the API they publish is about that old, making it astoundingly irrelevant and unusable, so there are precious few plug-ins for Eudora and little chance of making new ones. Google, on the other hand, published a hacker's wet dream API right up front, and the innovation that resulted from that continues to grow. There's a lesson in there somewhere.
Gmcp (gmail copy) is a Perl script for abstracting your GMail account into a file backup system. It Must Be Cool Because It's Perl™.
But GmailFS takes the idea even further... GMailFS is a Python app that creates a mountable Linux file system that uses your GMail account as a storage medium. Ummm... wow. This guy wins, I think. Talk about abstracting the data.
A few interesting GMail hacks have appeared recently:
Gallina presents your GMail account as a blog, where original emails are shown as entries and replies to those emails are shown as comments. It's a proof-of-concept app and it's been slashdotted all to hell, but the idea that you should be able to abstract data into whatever form you are most comfortable with is a good one. I've been using Eudora as my main email client for over a decade, and the API they publish is about that old, making it astoundingly irrelevant and unusable, so there are precious few plug-ins for Eudora and little chance of making new ones. Google, on the other hand, published a hacker's wet dream API right up front, and the innovation that resulted from that continues to grow. There's a lesson in there somewhere.
Gmcp (gmail copy) is a Perl script for abstracting your GMail account into a file backup system. It Must Be Cool Because It's Perl™.
But GmailFS takes the idea even further... GMailFS is a Python app that creates a mountable Linux file system that uses your GMail account as a storage medium. Ummm... wow. This guy wins, I think. Talk about abstracting the data.
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Sam Klein (The ZehnKatzen Times, ORblogger).
Sam Klein. (The ZehnKatzen Times, ORblogger)
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