Michael Gracie 

It’s been a very fishy spring, particularly with the whole FIBFest bit, but that doesn’t mean work has gone unattended. Well at least paying attention (which reminds me that I used to get sent to the dean’s office a lot for disrupting class)…. Technology WordPress 3.0: The 5 Most Important New Features [Mashable] – More [...]

..a violation of my privacy. I don’t think this is a big deal, and it’s certainly not surprising. UPDATE: Mathew Ingram says get a grip. A poll of Mashable readers rings similarly. UPDATE 2: Paul Kedrosky wasn’t surprised either.

Stan says: One thing to keep in mind here is that Gmail is free, and the old proverb about getting what you paid for applies here. Michael says: even if it was paid service, the sheer scale would preclude any quick reaction for your otherwise mission critical email, and the terms of service would preclude [...]

Yes, if you really want to parse your social network ever further online, you can engage Gmail for help. Just keep an eye out for malware while you’re doing it.

Google bought another: first FeedBurner, and now Postini. I say another because these are both Mobius/Foundry Group/Brad Feld/Ryan McIntyre related companies – and congratulations are surely well deserved. I won’t comment on what Google should do with Postini – Fred Wilson has already done that, and I’m not particularly “spam inclined”. But I will say [...]

I have precisely three contacts in my database, and one of those steadfastly refuses being synced to the Blackberry so I’m not worried either way. But for the very popular set who also happen to be cheap enough to use a free email service and silly enough to store their Rolodex in one, Gmail might [...]

Sophos is warning of a phishing email offering $500 from Google’s Gmail service. Either phishers are getting desperate, or stupid, as this has got to be one of the lamest phishing exploits ever. But with Google releasing new products all the time, even the most ridiculous of attempts is bound to garner a buck or [...]

People are so annoyed with spam, that they seem willing to give up usability for a little better protection. Case in point, Yahoo! Mail versus Gmail. Interestingly, I use both services for certain things, and I have found both pretty good at filtering spam. I’ve also found both about as useable as you can expect [...]

First it was Google’s Gmail, and now it is Microsoft. SpamCop is blacklisting big companies as though they are the lead enforcer on an organized crime taskforce. The bad of this is that a lot of helpless users are going to get their email bounced. The good part of this is that free email services [...]

And again, its GMail users in the shackles. SpamCop recently added several Gmail servers to its blacklist. The reason: some spam came from those servers, and Google doesn’t pass the originating IP address of the email user. They prefer instead to push their own IP in place of the standard “X-Originating-IP” header line delivered from [...]