{"id":807,"date":"2004-04-27T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-27T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2004\/04\/27\/braving-frontiers-of-technologysort-of\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:51:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:51:31","slug":"braving-frontiers-of-technologysort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2004\/04\/27\/braving-frontiers-of-technologysort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Braving the frontiers of technology…sort of"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a story today on Salon.com called Don’t be afraid of the big bad Gmail.<\/a> If you haven’t heard of G-mail, don’t worry. You will. It’s a new web-based e-mail service from Google that offers 1 GB of free storage to users. The trade-off is that your e-mails will show “contextual ads” from Google, similar to when you use their search engine. The idea that machines are scanning your e-mail to decide what kinds of ads to show you has some privacy advocates<\/a> worried. The Salon article takes a look at what the service offers, how it works and what it means for you and me, the user. <\/p>\n

Since The Daily Upload is hosted by Blogger.com (which is owned by Google) I received one of the invitations to be a beta tester of the new service. So I’ve signed up for an account and I’ll let you know what I think about it after I’ve used it for awhile. By the way, if you want to send me an e-mail to help me test it, my new Gmail address is dave.traynor@gmail.com<\/a>.
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There’s a story today on Salon.com called Don’t be afraid of the big bad Gmail. If you haven’t heard of G-mail, don’t worry. You will. It’s a new web-based e-mail service from Google that offers 1 GB of free storage to users. The trade-off is that your e-mails will show “contextual ads” from Google, similar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-d1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1794,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/1794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}