Few Day Report: Transferring to Gmail from Outlook, and Google Apps!

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Am I starting to sound like a Google convert? Down with Microsoft? I don’t mean to be. But my experience thus far have been pretty staggering!

My email louds instantly. Searches that used to take minutes, take seconds.  Consolidation of all my email accounts while difficult, was worth it. And finally, transfer of all my email, via an Imap mailbox in google, took 3 days (but is now done).  That’s gigs of email, from 3 computers, now instantly searchable. No crashes so far (I crashed on outlook several times a day). This is so far, amazing!  Incredible. Beyond what I could have imagined.  My email actually works!  I’ve been in computers since the 80’s, and my email has never worked.  I simply don’t know how to explain it.

It’s too early for a clear decision, but so far, light years change.  This may be the first move towards an Apple (unthinkable, I can’t even talk about the possibility right now). For better or for worse, Micrsoft has glacialized business on a PC.

Oh, one more thing. I’ve add Google Apps to my SalsaCrazy doman. A domain that has been on the web since the 90s. For those that know, old domains get a lot of spam. How much? Over 5000 email a day! Interesting eh? Bet ya’ didn’t know that eh. Anyway, well, for the first time this decade, I have complete working access to my email. I have taken back my domain from the web. It’s amazing. More on Google Apps later too.

Suffice it to say, big changes!  Nothing short of an inbox revolution.

I don’t talk much about my niches or exactly what I’ve been doing in them here, especially details, however, I have begun to investigate social networking apps in two of my niches with impressive results (all tracked). 

My feelings about Web2.0 and all the big courses I have made abundantly clear. Avoid for now. Simple as that. These are poeple trying to capitalize too early, and it takes an enormous amount of time (and a bit of luck) to see any serious results. However, social networking itself, and running a network specifically, is interesting.  More later…