total.pardo

FornaxChemica writes "In a surprise move, Google announced today, both on-site and in its blog, that it will permanently shut down its 3D virtual world, Lively, by the end of the year. This makes Lively one of Google’s few scrapped products, and one of the most short-lived, too, barely lasting 6 months. No official reason was given, only that Google wants to ‘prioritize [its] resources and focus more on [its] core search, ads and apps business.’ Lively might have taken too much and given back too little, even by Google’s standards."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

bye.

so far so good – the folks at zenbe.com are on to something here…from about.com:

Zenbe organizes your emails and attachments (from Zenbe and existing POP accounts) with labels and search — and integrates calendar, to-do list, twitter and Facebook updates, too.

With a focus on elegant simplicity, Zenbe provides many sweet shortcuts but also shows quirks and omissions in others. The spam filter is good, but it would be great if IMAP access was possible for all folders (not just the inbox).

Pros

• Zenbe lets you organize mail and attachments flexibly using labels and search
• ZenPages make it easy to share and collaborate on the information contained in emails
• Zenbe filters spam solidly, lets you use existing accounts and can be accessed using POP/IMAP

Cons

• Zenbe IMAP access provides access only to the inbox
• You cannot save searches and Zenbe cannot learn (say, what labels to apply) from your actions
• Zenbe does not thread messages, and does not prevent remote images from loading automatically

if you are still foolish enough to be using gmail – they have added themes to their mail site.

above is a sample of what they added.

use at your own risk…lipstick on a ninja still makes it a ninja.