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0Boxer Awards Badges, Points for Clearing Away Email

Emptying your email inbox isn't nearly as fun as playing a game of "Tetris," but it's the same activity: you delete or reply to messages faster than new ones arrive. New browser extension 0Boxer adds that element of gameplay to email drudgery for Gmail users.READ»

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Threadsy Smooshes Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and More Into a Surprisingly Clean Stream

Using several different social networks can get confusing. Threadsy aggregates a bunch of them in a Web app, and mostly manages to make it compelling. It's basically a one-stop shop for online communication.READ»

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Living with Google: A Day-in-the-Life

Google’s cloud-based apps have transformed the way people surf the web, do business, and view the world around them. Gmail has 176 million users to date, and Google Maps sees more than 44 million visitors each...READ»

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How to Avoid Getting Gmail's New Suspicious Account Activity Alert

While the suspicious account activity alert is helpful, it only kicks in AFTER a potential intruder has accessed your account. Rather than wait for the scary red alert, lock down your Web mail now. Whether or not you use Gmail, here's how.READ»

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The Real Strength of Google Buzz? It's a Giant Collaborative Sandbox

There's plenty of buzz, good and bad, about Google's newest product, but Giovanni Calabro sees it for what it is: A revolutionary collaboration tool.READ»

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Iran Blocks Gmail While Americans Fret Over Google Buzz's Privacy Implications

Amidst another huge wave of protests marking the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, Iranian authorities have announced that they are cutting off access to Google's Gmail and replacing it with a "national" email system.; If ...READ»

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How to Do Everything in Google Buzz (Including Turn It Off)

Google's new social media service Google Buzz will show up in your Gmail account this week. Here's how to customize and use Buzz--or opt out of its inbox-cluttering updates completely. READ»

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Claiming Your Google Local Ad

Google Local is yet another way of marketing your website online. When someone searches for your business’ products or services in your local area through Google Maps, your Google Local ad is what appears.READ»

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The iPhone vs. The Business Card

Ditch your business card; it's bad for business and the environment. With Gmail and my iPhone, every meeting follow up is personalized, conveniently archived, and facilitates networking. The experience of being cardless has turned me ...READ»

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Mail Wars

Google is doubling the Gmail capacity to 2 gb. This beats Yahoo, which matched the 1 gb capacity of Gmail. I remember when Hotmail increased its capacity to 250 mb when Gmail began offering beta accounts a year ago. Will this stir ...READ»

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Target: Audience

Conflicted about the recent controversy surrounding Gmail advertising? Look no further than the past. More specifically, the annals of radio broadcasting. Turns out, advertising had a difficult birth in radio. When major ...READ»

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Google Priority Inbox Soothes Email-Overload Stress

Too. much. email. And it's not always the kind of flat-out junk that can be zipped to a spam folder, either. Gmail's new Priority Inbox senses what email is important to you, and sequesters it for quick viewing.READ»

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Google's Next Assault on the Phone Biz: Call Phones From Gmail

It's been rumored, and now it's here: Google's implemented direct computer-to-phone calling from within its Gmail service. It's a small change, but it makes Google Voice more powerful, and challenges the existing phone industry.READ»

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Hackers Hijack Gmail in China [Updated]

In the U.S., we've been complaining about Gmail. In China, they're complaining too, but for a very different reason.READ»

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A Week Inside T-Mobile's G1

iPhone killer? Probably not. Game changer? No doubt about it. Here's how I fell in love with T-Mobile's G1 after only one week. Well, sort of.READ»

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Google Adds Buzz to Mobile Gmail: Try to Control Your Joy, iPhone Owners

Google Buzz has been surprisingly slow (meaning, it's taken a couple weeks) to reach mobile users, but now it's finally integrated with Mobile Gmail so every smartphone user can buzz their lives away.READ»

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Consumer Web Software Seeps Into the Workplace

Office tech is getting a casual Friday makeover, says Farhad Manjoo, who explains why we should celebrate the Facebookization of the enterprise.READ»

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Windows Live Hotmail: Completely Re-Invented (Read: It Actually Looks Good Now)

Microsoft announced their new version of Hotmail today, and it's the biggest change for the service I can remember. It takes lots of cues from Gmail, and in a few ways manages to one-up it--it's classic New Microsoft. In other words, it's legit.READ»

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Dealing with the new email and Facebook culture

T.A. McCann, CEO of Gist, talks with me about how communications are changing thanks to Facebook and Gmail and how we'll handle the explosion of web-based information.READ»

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Avoiding the Fail Whale

[video_twistage 1]Speaking? * Paul Buchheit, Founder of Friendfeed and one of the the creators of Gmail. * Dorion Carroll, VP of engineering at Technorati * Nat Brown: CTO of iLike, a music community service that had ...READ»

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Security (or Wet?) Blanket Policy

Yesterday's Wall Street Journal featured a front-page piece on how some large organizations are limiting access to Web services (subscription required) because of security concerns. That means that employees aren't able to use online ...READ»

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Flowtown Extends Reach of Small Business Marketing

Now that brands are becoming more aggressive users to social tools like Twitter and Facebook, there's a danger that consumers will be inundated with marketing messages and unwanted advances. The messages have become "touch points" ...READ»

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Putting the "Gee" in Email

Given that today is April Fool's Day, I'd be tempted to think that Google's announcement that it is launching a free, Web-based email service called Gmail was a spoof. But the news is all over the wire services and in all the ...READ»

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Google Unveils Buzz, a Social Media App for Gmail (Facebook Status: Concerned)

Google, like someone arriving late to a party already drunk and boisterous but with a lot of party favors, is trying to grab some of that Web2.0 social glimmer by polishing up Gmail with Google Buzz. The app, which is integrated ...READ»

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Is Your Startup a Nice to Have or Must Have?

With the downturn in the economy, numerous people are talking about starting a new business or company. Whether it’s a technology startup or new restaurant idea, I’ve heard of more and more people meeting to brainstorm and ...READ»