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What’s With GMail’s Sign-Up Button?

Since July, the Sign-Up button on the GMail login page has been changing. The frequency of the changes hasn’t been constant, and there have been a large variety of different styles.
Since July 28, 2007, I have been taking screenshots of the different buttons, and I’m publishing the screen grabs here. It’s kind of fun, seeing [...]

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GMail: The Video

Google has been editing a YouTube video about GMail. The cool part? Everyone gets to participate. The first half of the video is currently online on the GMail Video Page. Just print-out the GMail “M-Velope” image and film yourself. The idea is to help everyone “imagine how an email message travels around the world.” It’s [...]

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Google Accusing Microsoft of Antitrust Violation

 From the New York Times:
“When the Google and Vista search programs are run simultaneously on a computer, their indexing programs slow the operating system considerably, Google contended. As a result, Google said that Vista violated Microsoft’s 2002 antitrust settlement, which prohibits Microsoft from designing operating systems that limit the choices of consumers.”
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.Mac GMail?

An interesting rumor surfaced today. Could Apple and Google be planning something for Apple’s .Mac email service? There was a post on Engadget suggesting so.
There are several possibilities, supposing this rumor has any validity.

.Mac could end up being powered by GMail
Push GMail on the iPhone
GMail integration with the Mac OS
All of the above

There have been [...]

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Google Acquiring Feedburner

Google just bought Feedburner! Is that surprising? It’s not to me (well, not too much anyway). Think of it this way:

 Feedburner = RSS “re-hosting”, feed stats, and feed ads
 Google = Web site stats, website ads

So, you combine the two.
I believe the feed stats will eventually be integrated with Google Analytics, the ads with [...]

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