Reported by The Seattle Times. If Bill is going to do it, he is slow in catching up with the world.

I have never understood the difference between the various kind of syndication: RSS, Atom, whatever, or which one is better. Just like Mike, I just place the links, both RSS and Atom, on my site in case someone who knows how to use these things may benefit from it.

As a reader, I seldom use feed aggregator. All I have is an account with Bloglines. I guess I have also tried AmphetaDesk, but that is all. I prefer to surf to the site and enjoy the contents and design together. But as I am reading more and more blogs, perhaps I will start using an aggregator.

Many users in Orkut claimed that their Gmail account quota has been boosted from 1,000 MB to 1,000,000 MB (or a tetrabyte, though someone pointed out that 1 tetrabyte should be equal to 1,048,576 MB). Some people are putting up theories of this change.

My account quota still reads 1,000 MB (well, I have not received any notice that I can send 2 invitations, nor the Mother’s Day invitation notice, which many users have received).

(Update 19.05.2004@15:33): Just minutes after I published this post, there were Orkut users saying that their quota has just dropped back to 1GB. So perhaps it was only an error.

全靠 Topku 慷慨幫忙，終於拿到夢寐以求的 Gmail 戶口。由 Google 在 4 月 1 日宣佈開始測試後，全球的網民都瘋狂地找辦法取得測試戶口，據 Orkut 的一些用戶所講，有人甚至在 ebay 上拍賣測試戶口的邀請！

試用了兩天，發覺 Gmail 的速度真的很快，可是顯示中文有問題，甚至會將一些中文標題的郵件當成 spam。希望 Google 會快點處理這問題 ( 以 Google 中文版看來，他們一定有辦法解決 )。

Concerning the debate on protection of privacy on internet originated from the yet-to-be-released Google web-mail GMail, read The GMail Saga by Brad Templeton, and The Fuss About Gmail and Privacy: Nine Reasons Why It’s Bogus by Tim O’Reilly.