Besides the
authoring-tag idea. I think gmail can do more by apart from the traditional email frame. I found some information are so temporal-related, such as some subscribed information. They can be set rule in Gmail as "read and drop", means I can set a message timer to specific message types. When I read over them(or even not read), then will disappear after a period of time.
Also, I found there are some weird problems in Gmail that may cause over-anti-spamming. Some of my important messages were tagged as "spam" though I can't find a place to change their status into "not-a-spam"(Most of the "spam" message can be changed).
Gmail supports "labelling" at inbox as a cool function. However, tagging is too boring for readers only. If some messages was attached with tag from it's sender, it will become more collaboratively authoring. And it's will be easy to a identify a message in the future. Sometimes, I also use Gmail as digest tool to save and shar some interesting articles with myself and my trust friends(of course they trust me too). So I'd like to tag them first when I'm composing, instead of tagging them by the receivers(including myself). The experience is totally different. Hopefully, Google guys can learn what i'm saying and make Gmail a real lifelog application.
Google Video service is not open accessed in China for some reasons(Not GFW issue). So if you are in China to visit Google Video site, I'd suggest that you can take advantages of Tor to view video clips in Google with the following steps:
0. Setup
Tor on your machine and download
Google Video Player. Set Tor as proxy for Google Video Player(localhost:8118).
1. You can search Google Video to find what you want to view and get the id of the video, e.g. 6672770494265798071. (You will see "Thanks for your interest in Google Video.Currently, the playback feature of Google Video isn't available in your country.We hope to make this feature available more widely in the future, and we really appreciate your patience. " when you are in China)
2.Change the brower url to http://video.google.com/videogvp/CompetingandCollabor.gvp?docid=
6672770494265798071(change the id whenever you get a new search), it will prompt you download a file and open it with Google Video Player, accept it and Google Video Player will open locally to download the video automatcially, you can also enjoy the video while it's downloading.
All the downloaded video clips can be replayed forever.
