Comments on: Gmail To Offer Friend Updates? http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/ Startup and Technology News Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:49:07 -0800 hourly 1 By: arka sokaklar http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-2800882 arka sokaklar Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:58:34 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-2800882 @Dale Are you serious? Should you really be commenting here with such ignorance? Google provides corporate accounts (through Capgemini, in some cases) for $50/seat and so it is suitable for business. Especially alongside PGP and use of an email client. Go back to class. @Dale
Are you serious? Should you really be commenting here with such ignorance? Google provides corporate accounts (through Capgemini, in some cases) for $50/seat and so it is suitable for business. Especially alongside PGP and use of an email client. Go back to class.

]]> By: arka sokaklar http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-2800880 arka sokaklar Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:56:58 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-2800880 Updated, and never use it still now:D Updated, and never use it still now:D

]]> By: Seo http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-2563567 Seo Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:58:44 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-2563567 Updated, and never use it still now:D Updated, and never use it still now:D

]]> By: Eric Wahlforss » Blog Archive » 2008 Web Tech Predictions http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-2133892 Eric Wahlforss » Blog Archive » 2008 Web Tech Predictions Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:39:58 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-2133892 [...] sort of kills Facebook for many mainstream users (by offering status updates, some kind of social graph interface, [...] [...] sort of kills Facebook for many mainstream users (by offering status updates, some kind of social graph interface, [...]

]]> By: Will Google Pull a Plaxo?| Zoli’s Blog http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-1952156 Will Google Pull a Plaxo?| Zoli’s Blog Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:03:29 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-1952156 [...] posts: mathewingram.com/work, TechCrunch, Googling Google, The Last [...] [...] posts: mathewingram.com/work, TechCrunch, Googling Google, The Last [...]

]]> By: Alex http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-1890067 Alex Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:32:08 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-1890067 I hope it's opt-in, lest they pull a Facebook. I hope it’s opt-in, lest they pull a Facebook.

]]> By: kids these days...woosh http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-1889117 kids these days...woosh Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:48:46 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-1889117 @Dale Are you serious? Should you really be commenting here with such ignorance? Google provides corporate accounts (through Capgemini, in some cases) for $50/seat and so it is suitable for business. Especially alongside PGP and use of an email client. Go back to class. @Dale
Are you serious? Should you really be commenting here with such ignorance? Google provides corporate accounts (through Capgemini, in some cases) for $50/seat and so it is suitable for business. Especially alongside PGP and use of an email client. Go back to class.

]]> By: Mike Calimbas http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-1888701 Mike Calimbas Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:55:44 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-1888701 This stuff has been imminent for some time now. Yahoo better have something up their sleeves if they're going to keep up. This stuff has been imminent for some time now. Yahoo better have something up their sleeves if they’re going to keep up.

]]> By: Dale M. http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-1888430 Dale M. Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:46:52 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-1888430 @Andy Are you serious? You are using Gmail to read and compose BUSINESS mail? Nottin against Google, but Google's TOS says that if they want they can delete every account without a notice. I wouldn't trust a FREE mail company. For business mail i prefer using a business provider OR i'd set up a server on my own... @Andy

Are you serious? You are using Gmail to read and compose BUSINESS mail? Nottin against Google, but Google’s TOS says that if they want they can delete every account without a notice. I wouldn’t trust a FREE mail company. For business mail i prefer using a business provider OR i’d set up a server on my own…

]]> By: rfre http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-1888266 rfre Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:31:43 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-1888266 Is there really a user demand to have sites broadcast every little move they are making? This just seems like nonsense. Is there really a user demand to have sites broadcast every little move they are making? This just seems like nonsense.

]]> By: Andy http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-1888128 Andy Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:02:50 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-1888128 Call me curmudgeonly, but I just want email from Gmail. If I want social networking, I'll join a social network. But I really don't want inane "updates" from "friends" when I'm reading and composing business mail. Nor do I want people on my contact list to receive rubbishy "updates" from me. Is it me who's so old fashioned? If I want to update someone on what I'm doing, I'll email them or pick up the telephone. If Gmail foists this on me with no way to completely disable the sending and receiving of updates, I'll switch services, probably to my own domain with paid email hosting. Call me curmudgeonly, but I just want email from Gmail. If I want social networking, I’ll join a social network. But I really don’t want inane “updates” from “friends” when I’m reading and composing business mail. Nor do I want people on my contact list to receive rubbishy “updates” from me. Is it me who’s so old fashioned? If I want to update someone on what I’m doing, I’ll email them or pick up the telephone. If Gmail foists this on me with no way to completely disable the sending and receiving of updates, I’ll switch services, probably to my own domain with paid email hosting.

]]> By: ▓▓▓TechnoQ▓▓▓ http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-1887657 ▓▓▓TechnoQ▓▓▓ Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:32:21 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-1887657 I would like to see some more changes in Yahoo rather than Gmail!! I would like to see some more changes in Yahoo rather than Gmail!!

]]> By: TechnoQ http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-1887653 TechnoQ Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:31:42 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-1887653 By the way,when do u think Yahoo is gonna start something of this sort??? By the way,when do u think Yahoo is gonna start something of this sort???

]]> By: xenbet http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-1887111 xenbet Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:33:11 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-1887111 What took them so long ? Its just a natural progression of the service. Thought they would have done this years ago. www.Xenbet.com What took them so long ? Its just a natural progression of the service. Thought they would have done this years ago.

http://www.Xenbet.com

]]> By: Cool http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-1886922 Cool Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:51:59 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-1886922 Well i love to use gmail...and that is a good news for me :) Well i love to use gmail…and that is a good news for me :)

]]> By: vic http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-1886912 vic Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:40:52 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-1886912 Sounds like Spokeo and Friendfeed to me. Sounds like Spokeo and Friendfeed to me.

]]> By: John McCrea http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-1886890 John McCrea Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:08:14 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-1886890 For floks who want to get a sense of where this whole thing is heading, I think it's useful to look back at an interview Robert Scoble did of Joseph Smarr and me, way back in August: http://therealmccrea.wordpress.com/2007/12/30/want-a-preview-of-2008/ For floks who want to get a sense of where this whole thing is heading, I think it’s useful to look back at an interview Robert Scoble did of Joseph Smarr and me, way back in August: http://therealm...review-of-2008/

]]> By: Blah blah http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-1886858 Blah blah Sun, 30 Dec 2007 05:40:06 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-1886858 Good bye FriendFeed ;) Good bye FriendFeed ;)

]]> By: Jon http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-1886809 Jon Sun, 30 Dec 2007 05:01:32 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-1886809 @ #8: and I thought I was the ultimate anti-social hermit! ;-) Jon @ #8: and I thought I was the ultimate anti-social hermit! ;-)

Jon

]]> By: Jurado http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-1886797 Jurado Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:54:12 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-1886797 Interactive Times Square Sign Will Show Americans’ Messages of Thanks to the Troops “Operation New Year’s Eve” Text Messaging Campaign Launches This Weekend 12/29/07 – 01/01/08 NEW YORK -Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), the nation’s first and largest nonpartisan organization for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is taking part in “Operation New Year's Eve,” an exciting holiday campaign that lets Americans send text messages in support of U.S. troops to a sign in Times Square. Supporters can send text messages to 94444 (keyword ‘care’ space ‘then your message’). All messages will be collected by “Operation New Year’s Eve” and broadcast on a digital LED screen at the top of 4 Times Square, the tallest building in New York’s Times Square. More than a million people are expected to gather in Times Square for the News Year’s Eve celebration, with an additional 50 million Americans watching at home. The messages will be broadcast worldwide via a live video stream at www.operationnewyearseve.org or www.textthanks.org. Sign Lab Media and The Durst Organization are proudly sponsoring “Operation New Year’s Eve,” in association with Fountainhead.com, who designed and delivered the technology for the event. $.99 will be charged to users’ phones for each text message sent. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA). “Operation New Year’s Eve’ provides Americans with a fantastic way to show support for U.S. service members serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s critical that amidst all the celebration, we stop to think about the men and women who are away from their families and in harm’s way,” said Paul Rieckhoff, IAVA Executive Director. “We are grateful to The Durst Organization, Sign Lab Media and Fountainhead.com for sponsoring such an innovative campaign to help Americans say thank you.” Rob MacMillan, CEO of Sign Lab Media, is producing this historic event. A former Reservist, he intends to draw upon the Internet and social networks to lead the charge. “This is a profoundly simple, yet powerful way for all Americans to connect with the men and women serving overseas.” Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) is the nation’s first and largest group for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A non-profit and nonpartisan organization, IAVA represents more than 70,000 veteran members and civilian supporters in all 50 states. For more information, please contact : Bill Nestel, Sign Lab Media (514) 543-6929 or zumabill@aol.com. Interactive Times Square Sign Will Show Americans’ Messages of Thanks to the Troops
“Operation New Year’s Eve” Text Messaging Campaign Launches This Weekend 12/29/07 – 01/01/08

NEW YORK -Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), the nation’s first and largest nonpartisan organization for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is taking part in “Operation New Year’s Eve,” an exciting holiday campaign that lets Americans send text messages in support of U.S. troops to a sign in Times Square.

Supporters can send text messages to 94444 (keyword ‘care’ space ‘then your message’). All messages will be collected by “Operation New Year’s Eve” and broadcast on a digital LED screen at the top of 4 Times Square, the tallest building in New York’s Times Square.

More than a million people are expected to gather in Times Square for the News Year’s Eve celebration, with an additional 50 million Americans watching at home. The messages will be broadcast worldwide via a live video stream at http://www.oper...newyearseve.org or http://www.textthanks.org.

Sign Lab Media and The Durst Organization are proudly sponsoring “Operation New Year’s Eve,” in association with Fountainhead.com, who designed and delivered the technology for the event. $.99 will be charged to users’ phones for each text message sent. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA).

“Operation New Year’s Eve’ provides Americans with a fantastic way to show support for U.S. service members serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s critical that amidst all the celebration, we stop to think about the men and women who are away from their families and in harm’s way,” said Paul Rieckhoff, IAVA Executive Director. “We are grateful to The Durst Organization, Sign Lab Media and Fountainhead.com for sponsoring such an innovative campaign to help Americans say thank you.”

Rob MacMillan, CEO of Sign Lab Media, is producing this historic event. A former Reservist, he intends to draw upon the Internet and social networks to lead the charge. “This is a profoundly simple, yet powerful way for all Americans to connect with the men and women serving overseas.”
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) is the nation’s first and largest group for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A non-profit and nonpartisan organization, IAVA represents more than 70,000 veteran members and civilian supporters in all 50 states. For more information, please contact : Bill Nestel, Sign Lab Media (514) 543-6929 or zumabill@aol.com.

]]> By: uploadchoice http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-1886794 uploadchoice Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:53:15 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-1886794 I read somewhere that while browsing any site don't open your gmail account, might be the reason it gather all the information and your activities. I read somewhere that while browsing any site don’t open your gmail account, might be the reason it gather all the information and your activities.

]]> By: jason http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-1886779 jason Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:38:44 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-1886779 @PRoales there's a new check box in the domainsettings for Google Apps that makes this happen (-Turn on new application features to my domain before they are rolled out to all Google Apps customers). http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=82691&hl=en @PRoales
there’s a new check box in the domainsettings for Google Apps that makes this happen (-Turn on new application features to my domain before they are rolled out to all Google Apps customers).

http://www.goog...82691&hl=en

]]> By: umang http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-1886748 umang Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:10:52 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-1886748 I'll switch to another service as soon as someone tries to be my friend via gmail. I’ll switch to another service as soon as someone tries to be my friend via gmail.

]]> By: Gaurav Kanoongo http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-1886742 Gaurav Kanoongo Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:05:03 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-1886742 Google has acquired Jaiku, and there is still no word about Jaiku's future, GMail updates may be something like Googlised Jaiku. :) Google has acquired Jaiku, and there is still no word about Jaiku’s future, GMail updates may be something like Googlised Jaiku. :)

]]> By: Steel http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-1886721 Steel Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:54:49 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/gmail-to-offer-friend-updates/#comment-1886721 Are you kidding me? Google spamming? No way ! ( snicker) Are you kidding me? Google spamming? No way ! ( snicker)

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