{"id":48,"date":"2004-04-27T19:41:13","date_gmt":"2004-04-28T00:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/?p=48"},"modified":"2004-04-27T19:41:13","modified_gmt":"2004-04-28T00:41:13","slug":"gmail-for-gmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/2004\/04\/27\/gmail-for-gmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail for Gmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been invited into a secret inner gathering where everyone knows my name.  Well not really, I&#8217;ve been keeping my membership under wraps, due to an accute paranoia over spammers.<\/p>\n<p>  But that may all change with the release of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmail.com\">Gmail by Google<\/a>.  I&#8217;m almost giddy with the prospects of Google giving the email market a good shakeup as now Yahoo! and Hotmail have shrunk down their services to a few megs, when Gmail&#8217;s is 1 Gig.  As things stand it&#8217;s only in Beta, so better things are to come.  <\/p>\n<p>  The worries over privacy?  All they do is show ads about things relative to your  &#8216;conversations&#8217;.  I&#8217;d rather see ads about things I&#8217;m interested in, than an ad for AOL&#8217;s awesome dial-up service. <\/p>\n<p>  And to think that google is such a popular word.  I remember reading some odd fact\/word book once and finding the word googel fascinating.  Too bad I didn&#8217;t have the where with all to trademark the unique word back then; I could have been richer than the founder of IKEA(no not Bill Gates).  Sadly I wasn&#8217;t even remotely interested in the internet or on the ball back then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been invited into a secret inner gathering where everyone knows my name. Well not really, I&#8217;ve been keeping my membership under wraps, due to an accute paranoia over spammers. But that may all change with the release of Gmail by Google. I&#8217;m almost giddy with the prospects of Google giving the email market [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}