My name is Brian Whitman. I am a lapsed scientist and sound artist currently co-founder/CTO at The Echo Nest, a music intelligence company in Somerville, MA. As I work on various scaling and media search problems with detours into art projects I'll be posting details here in the hopes that I can learn from others. I'd always like to hear from you if you are working on similar things.
As of this week, Gmail has reached perfection: You no longer have to be online to read or write messages.Like every other desktop email client ever, that is.
If you’re still tied to a desktop app—whether Outlook, the Mac’s Mail program, or anything else that sees your local hard drive, rather than a Web server, as its brain—then you’re doing it wrong.Well, I’m convinced. I guess I’ll just switch to an email client that doesn’t allow me to drag a goddamn file into the message to attach it.
Dear mr. mrgan, there is this program called Mailplane. All the cool kids use it all the time, because it lets us drag whatever you want on it. To help myself feel good about the email lot in life I drew — no beachballs during searching for common words, no five minute startup while something tells me it is “Applying colors”, no vacuuming an envelope table in SQLite, I dragged a picture of a New Yorker diaeresis onto a love letter I was drafting in Mailplane over and over again. Mailplane, bless its soul, kept informing me I could just release my mouse button and all would be well.
(It’s over, desktop email people. You’re going to lose. Remember those guys who used mail (the program) in college? You were all on Pine, laughing. That’s you now.)
Reblogged from Neven Mrgan's tumbl.
