Gmail - What's the big deal?

Everybody appears to be very upset about Google’s new Gmail service because it analyzes the user’s emails in order to deliver targeted ads. Yesterday, California’s Senate passed a bill that restricts Gmail by requiring it to perform all analysis in real time, i.e. without storing any information, among other things. Personally, I don’t see what the big deal is. Last I heard, this was a free country, and nobody is forced to use Google’s Gmail service....

May 29, 2004 · 1 min · 188 words · DigitalHobbit

Sharing bookmarks between Mozilla and IE

Is it just me, or is there really no good way of sharing bookmarks between Mozilla (or Firefox) and IE? While I used to browse using IE up until recently, I find myself using Firefox most of the time these days, mostly due to its excellent support for tabbed browsing (does anybody else find it surprising that IE still does not support this feature?). However, I still use IE sometimes, and I would really like to see a good way of sharing bookmarks between these two browsers....

May 23, 2004 · 2 min · 277 words · DigitalHobbit