Filed under: Internet, E-mail, Google, Beta
Xoopit adds pretty picture previews to Gmail
The basic concept is that your email inbox is a more useful social networking tool than Facebook, MySpace, or other services, but web-based email clients generally don't present the same kind of tools for sorting through your rich media content that you can find on the other sites.
The Xoopit plugin is currently available for Firefox 1.5 and newer, and works with Gmail only. In the future, Xoopit plans to add support for Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, AOL Mail and other services. Xoopit is in private beta,
Update: The first 250 Download Squad readers to sign up with the code dsquad can get in on the beta today!
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Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
alstki said 7:29AM on 4-01-2008
Why do they need your gmail password if this is a plug-in? Not liking that much.
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kikuchiyosesa said 7:31AM on 4-01-2008
I don't like that I have to give my gmail password...
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mrblewett said 10:25AM on 4-01-2008
Well I signed up... I think they named it wrong... it should be stoopit instead of xoopit... this is useless for anyone who isn't a 13 year old girl and does not do anything but slow gmail down by showing pictures I don't care to see.
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Beebs said 10:31AM on 4-01-2008
They expect people to give their gmail password?!? Come on people...
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Jerrios said 10:36AM on 4-01-2008
Yeah, I was all for checking it out until I saw they ask for your gmail password. I'll pass.
Nerd said 10:54AM on 4-01-2008
What kind of stxoopit joke is this asking for passwords to people's email account?!? Ain't all that funny, even on April's Fool Day.
No, thx. Simple as that.
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Jonathan Katzman said 11:38AM on 4-01-2008
Hi, this is JK, one of Xoopit’s founders. We’ve seen the comments regarding email passwords and privacy issues here and elsewhere. You can think of Xoopit as a mail client, which makes it possible for you to access your mail data. We use industry best practices to secure our service and encrypt your password and have rigorous internal policies on the same.
We put up a very frank blog post yesterday on how we manage your data.
http://blog.xoopit.com/2008/03/how-xoopit-mana.html
Please comment or email me if you would like to have a further conversation on this.
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cw said 3:06PM on 4-01-2008
Standards or no standards, servers get compromised all the time. You don't really expect people to give you their passwords do you? Look at Remember the Milk, they have plug-ins that work in/with gmail but don't ask for the password.
I think you guys need to rethink this and get back to us.
Draku said 8:09PM on 4-01-2008
Question #3: Do you store a copy of my email?
We currently index and store a copy of your email on our servers so that we can help you discover new things lost in your inbox as we add new indexing features, like support for Facebook messages.
This post must be renamed to Xoopit steal your emails with your agrement and give you in exchange preatty pictures now and spam ads and shit in the future.
Question #4: Will you delete my account if I ask?
Yes, we will in 24 to 48 hours. No ifs, ands or buts. That said, please send us feedback.
Don't wait change your gmail password NOW