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Moving Pegasus & ThunderBird archives to GMail

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Ken
on 7 January, 2009
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Storing everything, especially email in the cloud had been all the buzz lately.

Since moving to GMail I have not use a email client again. Going back to email client like ThunderBird seems like a step backward. No more worry about migrating email archive when changing computer, reinstalling system. No more backing up and copies of backup of different clients lying around. Whether working at home, office or cafes, it is just a single logon.

Well then the last step to complete the cloud migration is to move the outstanding archives backup dating almost a decade ago into the cloud. And I did it last weekend.

Here are some notes for those intenting to move existing Pegasus Mail or ThunderBird email archive into GMail.

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Playing with Google Friend Connect

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Ken
on 17 December, 2008
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Google Friend Connect allows a website to quickly add social features with any coding. It is really easy to put up the little gadget you see on the right - just copy 2 files and a piece of code to where it should appears.
If you have an OpenID, why not join up? There is nothing to use really. But it would be nice to put some names to the visitors after running this blog for 2 years.
The member gadget fits nicely into the 2-column spanning block of AdAdvantage. There are some ideas to revamp this block to better use the space. Will see how it goes.

Google, yet again.

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Ken
on 21 October, 2006
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Sometimes I wonder, would Google become the next Microsoft? It seems that Microsoft and Yahoo are having problem competing with Google.

People prefer to work at Google. Even companies prefer to be acquired by Google.

Google must have done something right. Everything they do is cool. Comparatively, everything Microsoft does for a long time is an evil attemp to take over the world.

What can go wong with them? They just reported third quarter earnings growth of 92% over last year. Could they have done that by cutting back on the amount they paid to adsense publisher? No wonder people are speculating Adsense is dead.

Imagine Google went from zero to what they are now is just over half a decade. Impossible is nothing.

Google buys YouTube

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Ken
on 11 October, 2006
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YouTube + Google

This must be the talk of the town. 1.65 billion in stock. Google purchase of YouTube is heating up the internet once again.

I watch YouTube because somehow Google Videos is not available in China. Would the acquisation cut off YouTube from China? I hope not.

Speculation, theory, analysis and naysayer abound.

The biggest take away for me is why buy YouTube when Google has its own video site? It is not the first time Google does this. I recall MeasureMap and Urchin (now Google Analytics). In the standard business textbook there are a few reasons for that:

  1. Take out your strongest competitor
  2. Create an even bigger market
  3. Synergy, better leverage of resources

Whatever the case, I’m just an observer, sometime wondering how all these money game is being played out.

GTDGMail after 2 weeks

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Ken
on 9 October, 2006
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This is how my GMail inbox look like since started using GTDGMail 2 weeks ago.

inbox after GTDMail

I didn’t take a screenshot of the inbox before but it was close to 100 times that figure.

Did GTD Work?

Well, the idea of GTD is simple and attractive. Although GTDGMail is a nice Firefox plugin to implement the concept of GTD in Gmail, I haven’t quite gotten the most out of it for 3 reasons.

  1. If you have thousands of thing in your head, jotted on post-it or stacked across the desk, can you imagine getting all that into GTDGMail?
    I haven’t gotten around to tag things outside of my GMail inbox. There got to be a better way instead of sending myself a thousand emails.
  2. I get quite alot of email, the end result is that I spend alot of time following the two minutes rule to clear each email without skipping any.
  3. The tagging and reviewing work flow is still very clumbersome for me.

All of these are not really a problem with GTD or GTDGMail per se but more of getting the workflow right.

I believe GTD fit into what I’m doing online, especially with more than a handful of ideas going on. More update as I go along.

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