If you use Gmail, I have your Xoopit Invitation
With all the photos and videos I’m dealing with in my email right now, I love Xoopit.
The service scans your gmail account for media (photos, videos, etc.). The Firefox add-on allows you to easily manage/search/sort/view this media.
I’ve asked for and was given 100 invitations for readers of davidrothman.net. Click here to get started.
It’s in Beta. YMMV, but as someone who manages a significant number of email accounts with Gmail and lots of media, I’m just loving it.
Our child was born four days ago and I’m taking time to put up a brief blog post about Xoopit. Let that inform your sense of how much I like it.
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June 27th, 2008 at 4:12 am
It is an interesting commentary on the evolution of trust on the internet that an unknown startup providing a “free” service with no immediately understandable business model can ask you point-blank for your email login and password, and many people will hand it over without a second thought.
And yet people are still leery of providing simply their email address on a registration form for fear of getting spam.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Congratulations on the new baby! Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!
I always enjoy your helpful and interesting posts but I agree with Blud above.
It seems sometimes people need even less than a carrot to do all kind of weird things…
June 27th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Thanks. I think I’m going to love Xoopit!
June 27th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
yeah - i had this feeling, too. It’s not designed for security - not very happy about it. but still I did it and it’s very handy.
June 27th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
I made the mistake of giving my gmail password to Facebook (to import my friends list) and lived to regret it. Whatever happened to OpenID (http://openid.net/)?
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Thanks for the pointer. Seems like a useful application - somewhat like Xobni.
July 26th, 2008 at 9:38 am
i just want to tanks you for the invitation
Fabien
August 7th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Thanks for the invitation!