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Gmail: updated feature? or simply missed by most

December 9, 2006

Internet, Marketing.fm, Search, Software, Technology

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TechCrunch is reporting that gmail is now more perfect. I left my thoughts in a comment there but wanted to share my findings here as well.

I feel like I may be missing something as this is a feature I have been using for awhile. All my email accounts are fed through gmail and basically I use it as the ultimate backup feature. I still use other mail aps to check email but everything is funneled through gmail. I use Thunderbird to truly keep email inbox’s separate or if I would like to see a chain of emails all together. I funnel all my marketing.fm emails through gmail though to keep things in one place.

I have also had the option to send from the new email or my gmail address at my choosing. It actually provides all the emails in a drop down menu on the “fromâ€? area. I noticed the date range on the gmail help area as 12/5 but I have literally been using this feature for at least 10 months.

The one problem I have with this 100% integration is the recent negative stories that I have heard about gmail accounts being mysteriously deleted. Internet rumors aside I personally know some folks who signed up for gmail awhile back and recently got locked out of their account when someone tried to hack their accounts. A good friend of mine who is a graduate student actually had her life locked away in gmails semi-walled garden and when locked out, her projects were at the mercy of the google engineers.

These experiences forced me to tell all my friends to have backup copies and make sure your secondary email addreses and secret questions were up to date.

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch is considering moving everything to gmail. I think about a possible time where gmail is down or you get locked out of your account. If there is one thing this cross integration of all products and storing everything in the cloud of the Internet teaches us its; BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP. (each of those links is to a free backup service:)

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