Gmail - Multiple Automatic Filters / Labels

That gmail has the capibilities to automatically filter incoming mail and label it accordingly is basically common knowledge. The use of this technique for todo-lists or as a depository for notes to have them all the time and everywhere available, can be found at many different places on the web as well. But what if I have an important todo item that additionally I want to keep writing some notes on the topic? Do I then have to write multiple messages one for each filter / label?

The answer is: NO!


All that has to be done in order to be able to use multiple filters within one message like

Recipient: Username+Filter1+Filter2+Filter3@gmail.com
e.g. Username+important+todo+notes@gmail.com

is that the filters need to be set up in a way that after the "+filter-extension" in the Filter Condition a * has to follow, being succeeded by the @gmail.com or whatever the extension is that google offers in your country.

Filter Condition:
to:Username+Filter1*@gmail.com
Username+important*@gmail.com
to:Username+Filter2*@gmail.com
Username+todo*@gmail.com
to:Username+Filter3*@gmail.com
Username+notes*@gmail.com

And that's it. From now on messages can easily be sent with multiple labels attached to them :-)

technorati tags: Google, gmail

Is Google becoming - "The Internet" ?!

Google just launched another service - a traffic analysis (see also Slashdot | Google Launches Web Traffic Analysis Service ). It is just one in a wide variety of new, FREE services Google is starting to build around its core - the data mining according to user preferences or as the average internet user would call it - Searching the Web. Adding to the services suit of recently its free wifi-service in CA,USA and starting to invade eBay-Territory with base.google.com, Google Talk (VoIP) and the oh so controversial Google Print.
It is awesome to be able to do so many things online and for free but as Microsoft has such market-power on desktops, it seems Google is aiming for dominating the Internet. I get the feeling that Google is becoming too big and too diversified for its own good. Hope they proof me wrong! As long as Google keeps "not being evil" it's all good but who says that it will stay that way? I feel a little uncomfortable seeing Google jump on every hype that is coming up these days.

Another area of concern for me is the fact that Google's P/E is sky-high and does not seem to know any boundaries. Is the next stock market hype near or is Google really worth THIS much? I can hardly see it. And while I agree with GF Colony of Forrester Research that the company has the power to define the future of software, the thought of having ONE company dominate an area as vital to everybody in todays world as the internet, still makes me uncomfortable. But then again - if someone has to dominate - then why not the "so not evil" - Google?!

technorati tags: Google, Internet

The new era of Webbrowsing - making the "social" Web2.0 reality

I recently came accross the Mozilla Firefox derivative FLOCK. Even though it is only a developer preview version, it looks very promising. Flock is derived from Firefox, so that most of the extensions (and themes?) should (with little adaption of the community) work with Flock. It has added features though which enhance it towards the social features of the internet aka the Web 2.0

These scial features manifest themselves in elements like a WYSIWYG Blog editor, which works with some popular blog services (as a matter of fact, this blog is written in Flock ;- )

Further Flock introduces favorits instead of bookmarks, which can be shared online on a service http://del.icio.us . In addition to them being possibly viewed by the world, they can also be searched and organised with the help of tags - thus making the organisation much more flexible than the old-style bookmarks.

It also includes RSS feed reader, caching and on-the-fly aggregation.

There is much more to be checked out ... http://www.flock.com

Flock certainly has the potential not only to become a major threat in terms of browser market share, but it definately holds the possibilities to revolutionise/socialise the web browsing experience.

GAIM & Google's IM Service

Thanks to Vijay Shankar Ganesh, there is a nice little description on
how to configure GAIM using the Jabber protocol in order to become a
user of Google's IM program.

http://geekswithblogs.net/vganesh/archive/2005/08/24/50949.aspx

Stream Of (Un-)Consciousness

Another day of hard (knowledge) work has passed, the mental image of myself appears rather blurred and not clear. But blogging is supposed to help - focus the mind by taking it off the most burning issues. It forces me to think, structure, and work consciously with what has so far been "just there" in the unconscious space within.

Dumping my thoughts here, should not only enable me to create a piece of reflection for myself (and possibly others) but also give me an opportunity to discuss issues with the world-wide blogging community.

I believe in gaining through sharing. True to the spirit of openness I believe that only exposition to public scrutiny can enable me to survive.

In that sense:

HELLO WORLD!
-- let's blog!