OT: gmail replacement (or: gmail pissed me off)

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 09:45:08AM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Hi,
> Before you jump, you might to read this:
> http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/13/google-buzz-privacy-update/
> I'm not trying to convince you to stay with gmail, but every free mail
> service has it's price. They (Google) did stupid mistakes regarding privacy
> etc but as you can see, they try to fix it.

Two things to point out:

* What will be their next "stupid mistake"?
* Buzz, unlike Google Chat, and unlike Google Wave, is not a federated
  service. It makes GMail even less federated.

And speaking of federation: Facebook now allow you to use XMPP (Jabber,
also the same protocol used by GTalk) to connect to their chat. Sadly
without the federation option: you can't chat to users of other servers
through their XMPP server. You're still in their walled graden.

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