Speaking of tablets, I like the way these guys are thinking about the UI of a digital publication that would go on a tablet. Seems much more thought out than the Sports Illustrated one.
<p>Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.</p> Thoughts?
I got this sign-in screen when I tried to login to my Google account. Unfortunately, after sign-in it was the same ol’ iGoogle. I wonder if this has anything to do with the problems going on with Gmail right now.
Heaven help us. Russia is bombing Georgia, the ice caps are melting, France is still a sovereign nation, and Gmail is down. It’s not an isolated incident as people on Twitter are reporting the same problem:
Whatever could be the problem? I’ve never really had any issues with Gmail. Interestingly enough, I can use Gmail over IMAP on my iPhone. Weird.
One clue may be (yes, I’m really reaching here) is this new “Create an account” button I saw this morning:
Oddly, when I clicked the link in my feed reader to go to the actual article, Cult of Mac gave me an error page. Hmmm…strange stuff is afoot. Perhaps my initial hunch that Apple just transitioned all their .Mac stuff to Google’s services, masked in a pretty Apple design, is true. ;)
UPDATE 2: TechCrunch is reporting the same thing: Gmail is down systemwide. As a side note, I’d like to point out that I had the “story” up before Arrington did. ;) UPDATE 3: As of about 4:35, my account is back. Same ol’ look and at first glance no new features. Also, no word on the Official Gmail Blog about the outage.
Most of us recognize this screen. Notice the pre-selected widgets faded in the background: YouTube, weather, clock, etc. Why anyone would add a clock widget on their homepage is beyond me as most computers nowadays are able to tell time. But I digress.
When I launched my browser this morning, instead of the standard widgets you see above it was populated with what looked like popular, locally relevant widgets. There was a KSL widget, an LDS.org widget among others. I didn’t think much of it, figuring they were going to suggest widgets based on popular sites in my area and logged in. I should have learned by now that when there’s some kind of anomoly with anything Google I should get a screen shot because it’s not there anymore. If anyone else notices the same thing, please grab a screen shot and e-mail it to me: theotherdrummer at gmail *dot* com.
I just had this little notification pop up in my Google Reader. Apparently the web app has taken it upon itself to add feeds from the sites I have listed in my blogroll here at The Other Drummer.
It has the potential to be a nice touch, although so far I’ve noticed a few flaws:Does anybody else have this feature? Is it working for you? What are your thoughts? Or did I get selected (again) by Google’s divine providence?
UPDATE: Clicking the “Learn more” link in Reader took me to a Blogger Help page with an Internal Error/We Can’t Find What You’re Looking For message. The plot thickens. UPDATE 2: I just logged in (it’s now about 11:40 pm) and the feature is gone. I’ve checked out the forums over at the Google Reader Blog and three other people have reported the same thing. So far it doesn’t look like it’s being received well. UPDATE 3: I just checked my site stats and have had five visitors today from Mountain View, California. Google…are you out there?
