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Much anticipated project by Mathematica-create and overall genius Stephen Wolfram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram
Instead of a search engine, he built an "answering machine" by extracting formal knowledge from the internet's unstructured data. -
"With filters (and labels) you can use Gmail to handle a ton of incoming mail. [...]
But managing the filters themselves has been another story. Each filter has to be crafted individually [...]
Filter import/export, available today in Gmail Labs, helps you work with filters in bulk, rather than just one at a time."This is a feature I (and other users) suggested a few months ago: http://twurl.nl/bzylvh
Especially useful when you want to move from regular Gmail to Gmail hosted on your own domain. -
Long transcript of a 1-hour interview with Eric Schmidt.
Interesting quotes on transparency and privacy (typical for the engineering attitude):
"transparency is how you keep societies honest. … they serve as a form of check and balance on the powerful, the rich, the people who might exploit others."
"the fact of the matter is that we’ve given up something in terms of privacy in return for these other things."
"the trick is that people should have control over what they choose to — people should have control over what they — what information they publish. As long as the answer is that I chose to make a mess of myself with this picture" -
Great 3d party Flickr iPhone App, more than worth its $0.79