Re: A Game (Email - Kelly)

Jamie Lokier <[email protected]> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:17:48 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.misc.free-software-business
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Anderson, Kelly wrote:
> I haven't been agressively attacking the email problem for a while, so
> it is possible that GMail has some very cool stuff that I'm not aware
> of. I'm personally turned off the "webness" of the application. Now if
> it were an AJAX application, I would probably be more excited about it.

I am under the impression that GMail is a somewhat AJAXy application;
and that that was one of the reasons people were initially excited by
it.  But I don't use GMail, so don't really know.

> > Whatever mystery thing Microsoft Research are working on 
> > looks quite exciting too.
> 
> Where can you find out more? Or is it secret stuff?

Take a look at http://research.microsoft.com/community/snarf/
That's very similar to what you've been describing.

-- Jamie