Googlemail to become Gmail in UK

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 at 1:14 pm  
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Googlemail to become Gmail in UK

Good news for UK users of google mail!

British e-mail users with Google accounts are now able to change the end of their addresses from @googlemail.com to @gmail.com.

A five year trademark dispute meant that Google was not allowed to use the name Gmail in the UK.

In 2005 a company called Independent International Investment Research claimed it had used “Gmail” first.

Google claimed at the time that the settlement IIR asked for was “exorbitant” and dropped the name.

Within a year of launching the free e-mail service in the UK, Gmail became Google Mail.

While early adopters received a gmail.com address, all subsequent new accounts were given the suffix googlemail.com.

“Since ‘gmail’ is 50% fewer characters than ‘googlemail’ we estimate this name change will save approximately 60 million keystrokes a day,” wrote software engineer Greg Bullock on Google’s Gmail blog.

British users with Googlemail addresses will be asked whether they wish to change their address. It will not affect the settings or functionality of the accounts, Google said.

The firm is not releasing the details of the new settlement but states that the matter is “happily resolved”

BBC News 5 May 2010

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How To Activate RSS On Your Website

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 at 7:42 pm  
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Alex Jeffreys Coaching Forum is becoming quite a large forum and as students become more active it is difficult sometimes to keep up with it all whether it is forum posts or other students’ blog posts.

With regard to other students’ blog posts I have solved the problem by using the RSS Feeds on their blogs (see my previous post “What is RSS?”).

However there is a slight problem with that as a number of blogs (some very active) have not yet set up the RSS Feed for that blog.

For those that are not quite sure what to do I have created a small tutorial below which will show you how to set up your RSS feeds for WordPress, Blogger and Typepad blogs.
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What Is RSS?

Monday, August 10th, 2009 at 9:05 pm  
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One of the great time wasters in internet marketing is keeping track of sites that you like such as blogs, newspapers and so on.

It is generally assumed that everybody knows what an RSS feed is but when you click on the RSS logo on many sites nothing really happens, as it has not been “activated”.

So what is RSS?

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RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication (some say it is Rich Site Summary).

Originally it was necessary to bookmark sites on your  browser and then come back and check them at intervals to see if anything had been added.

Obviously if you are tracking many sites, for example, the sites of a forum, it can be a lot of work and very time consuming.

RSS actually reverses that by telling you when there are any updates from your chosen sites by sending the updates to one specific place where you can read them  at your convenience.

” This has made it really easy to not only publish regular updates to web-based content, but also keep track of a large number of your favorite websites or blogs, without having to remember to check each site manually or clutter your email inbox.

You can now streamline your online experience by subscribing to specific content feeds and aggregating this information in one place to be read when you’re ready.” Feedburner
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