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Re: Getting moved to Gmail

Rachel — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:26:26 -0000

For an historical footnote, Hosted Exchange provided by companies like 123Together (for reference http://www.123together.com) clearly came out the winner. Especially with the move to mobile device integration as that became central to small business success.

Re: Getting moved to Gmail

Lewis — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 13:27:43 -0000

You should give Windows Live Custom Domains a try. Upgrade the accounts to Windows Live Mail beta, and you'll get the familiar Outlook look and feel with a whopping 2GB of storage.

Re: Getting moved to Gmail

Jon Galloway — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:04:04 -0000

I'll echo what several people have said - the best combo is Outlook (or another e-mail client) on top of GMail.

I made that decision GMail went out on me right before a conference call, and I was left without access to several important e-mails. It's the best of both worlds - you get the benefits of an e-mail client (backed up, toast popups, etc.), and you get the benefits of web based e-mail (can use the web interface whenever / wherever), mobile access via m.gmail.com, etc.).

Re: Getting moved to Gmail

Matt Cutts — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 03:34:54 -0000

Let us know how you like Gmail. Once you get used to the keyboard shortcuts, it's really fast. :)

In fact, don't you think you should try a symbolic month of MSFT-free stuff? :) Store everything on the net: calendar, email, etc. Go to Bloglines for your RSS so you're running fewer apps and more webbiness.

Go on, give it a try! :)

Re: Getting moved to Gmail

dg — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:43:24 -0000

I've been using Gmail for domains for a couple months and really love it. Great to go from computer to computer and access to the same stuff. I prefer to anything I've used before.

Re: Getting moved to Gmail

Skeptic — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:44:50 -0000

Hmmm... Are my trackbacks being censored? http://www.dead20.com/2006/...

Re: Getting moved to Gmail

Guest — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:31:30 -0000

I tried moving off a hosted Exchange solution to Gmail last month and it was terrible. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if I hadn't been used to Outlook 2007. The attachment preview in Outlook 2007 is a huge time saver if you review a lot of attachments each day.

I eventually moved off the hosted Exchange to just regular POP/SMTP solution through the company that hosts my blog/website. Hosted Exchange was sweet but not worth the $25/month.

Good luck moving off Outlook. No way in hell could I do it at home or at work.

Re: Getting moved to Gmail

Susan — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:47:41 -0000

Sounds like someone needs a SBS 2003.. has exchange you know ... and it can even be hosted ;-)

Re: Getting moved to Gmail

www10 — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:38:14 -0000

So, was it easy making the switch to using GMail? :) It's definitely a great place to outsource your email needs to.

Do write more about life in a startup! See ya

Re: Getting moved to Gmail

Zoli Erdos — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:59:38 -0000

Robert, check out : http://www.plugandplayreale....

Pay-as-you go, month-to-month space, you can grow (shrink?) as business demands.

Re: Getting moved to Gmail

PatrickQG — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:40:40 -0000

Going from a large company to a small can be quite disconcerting - I recently made the move from a 12 person team in a 100 person department in a 4,000 employees university to a 6 person office that's part of a 25 employees (across 3 countries) company.

There's fewer people to have water cooler type discussions with, that's for sure!

Re: Getting moved to Gmail

Rod Edwards — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:20:56 -0000

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Re: Getting moved to Gmail

Dmad — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:45:11 -0000

Geez, Scoble, you really don't know how to comprehend what you read, do you? You apparently missed Cuban's point completely.

Re: Getting moved to Gmail

William — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:32:04 -0000

I've been using the Gmail hosted stuff for a while for my family mail/calendars and it's been great. I use Outlook for mail most of the time but find more and mroe I'm just using the gmail interface. My wife still likes Outlook Express but that's another story.

Calendaring, something I never used to use outside of work, has totally changed my life. I'm one of those people who often forgets not just what they have to do, but what day it is. Having a shared calendar allows my wife and I to put up events which we'll both see. And SMS reminder, including a daily agenda, help me stay on top of things.

Now if only Outlook 2007 would let me subscribe to a iCal calendar without using the dopey webcal WebDAV protocol.

Re: Getting moved to Gmail

Charlie Wood — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:36:56 -0000

Is Podtech using Salesforce.com (yet)? If so, I have something that's going to blow your mind. (But I won't plug it here.)

-Charlie

Re: Getting moved to Gmail

Sam Davyson — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:28:12 -0000

I look forward to seeing your suggestions for Hotmail once you have played with Gmail.

Re: Getting moved to Gmail

/pd — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:23:26 -0000

Robert , is this gmail hosted services ?

Re: Getting moved to Gmail

nortel — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:08:22 -0000

so why is the internet boring? your statement looks like a nice trick to techmeme-ed to be honest.

Re: Getting moved to Gmail

Robert Scoble — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:43:50 -0000

Drums: yeah, I'll be there!

Re: Getting moved to Gmail

John Walker — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 03:49:41 -0000

If you still like Outlook as you Email client, Gmail supports POP3, so you should be good there. I like Google Calendar, but I wish they supported synch to Outlook Calendar. I may have to develop something up to do that.

Re: Getting moved to Gmail

DrumsNWhistles — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 03:06:45 -0000

Last week I would've been singing the praises of Gmail. This week it's been a complete nightmare, since I can't access it at all and there aren't any bodies at Google willing to actually help troubleshoot it.

So be careful...use Gmail, but back it up with Outlook or something to your own computer or you could find yourself without your email and without a way to fix it, too.

It's a pity that they have such a great product but do not support it in any way, shape or form.

Congratulations to you and Maryam on your move to Podtech...you both sound very happy. I'm looking forward to meeting Maryam in person at Blogher...will you be there too?

DnW

Re: Getting moved to Gmail

Tejas Patel — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:38:53 -0000

Ha Ha Robert. I am sure you are going to love it. I look forward to seeing your suggestions for Gmail and Google Calendar seeing that you have used corporate applications all this long.