Archive for April, 2008
ESP Gmail Appeal - Now on Video
The guys at Email Standards Project have completed the assembly of ‘the Gmail Grimace‘, a worldwide appeal for email folks to display their feelings about Gmail’s bizarre lack of CSS standards support.
Show your appreciation for the Gmail Grimace project - watch the video, run through a range of emotions, pick one, and visit the ESP site’s ‘What you can do‘ page, and take it from there. Really, it’s the least you can do.
Email Standards Project - Gmail Grimaces from Mathew Patterson on Vimeo.
Google launches Google App Engine
Google has just launched their Google Apps engine platform, which looks to bring cloud computing to Google’s growing arsenal of services and applications available to the public.
A direct gauntlet throw-down to Amazon’s web services, the launch of the App Engine means that Google won’t just host your application for you, they’ll actually help you build the entire thing, offering crucial components like free server bandwidth, an application environemnt, BigTable database access, and GFS (Google File System) for data storage.
Best of March 2008 - Email Design Round-up
A single collection of all things email design-related for the month of March.
Google AdWords has a new mascot. Frank.
It’s tough trying to determine whether or not the AdWords crew have finally lost the plot. Over on their blog they’ve just announced that Frank the Hand Turkey is officially the new GAW mascot (complete with new bowtie), and with his new position comes great responsibility. He knows this, and has already started pushing his weight around by introducing a new ranking algorithm - FrankRank(TM).
It looks like Frank is set to become the new cock of the walk at Google, and I wish him the best of luck, and look forward to hearing more about him!
