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"Google revealed Wednesday that it always requires a search warrant whenever authorities seek access to the content of a user's emails or documents stored in Google's cloud, Wired reported."

The form emailer works - automatically send an email to someone from your s/sheet eg feedback to a form they have completed. Didn't install Form+ since there was too much negative feedback in the chrome store.

The college reached this decision after first looking into outsourcing their email to the cloud. They considered offering from both Google and Microsoft, but eventually decided against both in lieu of the new forwarding option.

"Engaging busy healthcare providers in online continuing education interventions is challenging... We found that email reminders dramatically increased participation."

Excellent piece on the changing digital landscape and what it means for content. "Look around the next time you're sat on a crowded city bus during commuting hours. Most people's headphones are now plugged into their phones. If by some chance they're not listening to music then they're reading the paper, a book, checking twitter, posing on facebook, writing an email, updating their diary or taking a photo and sticking a vintage filter on it while on their phone, or tablet, or e-reader. And they probably are listening to music while doing all the above."

"Boomerang for Gmail is a Firefox / Chrome plugin that lets you take control of when you send and receive email messages." Looks good and allows follow up reminders

RT @googlechrome: Do you use @Gmail? You can now set Chrome to default open email links in Gmail - learn more: http://t.co/zNgdearX #yam

New tool that allows you to connect all your contact info, tweets, email, facebook stuff together

Easy script to run and get emailed when updates happen - a bit like forms notification.

A response to the recent EU ruling that companies can look at the private correspondence of their workers if it took place during working hours. Also implied is the question 'What hours are working hours?'.

The great EduBlogs copyright ridiculousness fiasco. "And today, our hosting company, ServerBeach, to whom we pay $6,954.37 every month to host Edublogs, turned off our webservers, without notice, less than 12 hours after issuing us with a DMCA email. Because one of our teachers, in 2007, had shared a copy of Beck's Hopelessness Scale with his class, a 20 question list, totalling some 279 words, published in 1974, that Pearson would like you to pay $120 for."

The autoCrat Script was written to be a multi-purpose document merge tool that allows you to take any personalized, row-based spreadsheet data and create, save, attach to email, and share templated documents. No scripting ability required to use.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/10/13/kaplan-letter-wrong/#.TpeGO3qY-hI.email Part of a conversation about plagiarism as a writing form.

Not just "A form was submitted" but the data submitted too.

"Securely self-hosting your websites, email, files and more has never been easier (or cheaper!). Decentralize your web and reclaim your privacy rights while keeping the conveniences you need."

Google say they have dealt with this. The fail point is when someone follows the link from the fake email, the social engineering aspect.

Accused of scanning student email for advertising, Google has clarified the situation.

"Meta-data contains a great deal of information, and when gathered together it forms a startlingly clear picture of the person it comes from. A point that Professor César Hidalgo and graduate students Daniel Smilkov and Deepak Jagdish of MIT are trying to get across. They have created a new program called Immersion. It works by signing you into your Gmail account and collecting only the meta-data from your account usage history. From there you can get a picture of your emailing habits from that single account, and you will be shocked at what you see."