A Techie's Perspective
Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including individual users, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through an "architecture of participation," and going beyond the page metaphor of Web 1.0 to deliver rich user experiences.The Web 2.0 promotes an 'architecture of participation' by utilizing data from multiple sources and providing its own data in a form that can be utilized by others. This is evident from the numerous API's that are available on the web. Anyone with a unique idea can develop a mashup using one or more of such API's.
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Apparently this is not a bug nor even a feature but a "known behaviour".--
If a virus is found in an attachment you've received, our system will attempt to remove it, or clean the file, so you can still access the information it contains. If the virus can't be removed from the file, you won't be able to download it.So I sent the EICAR Anti-Virus test file to my account and this is what I actually recieved:
This message has been processed by Brightmail(r) AntiVirus usingthen again Gmail said:
Symantec's AntiVirus Technology.
eicar.com was infected with the malicious virus EICAR Test String and has been deleted because the file cannot be cleaned.
eicar.com was infected with the malicious virus EICAR Test String and has been deleted because the file cannot be cleaned.
eicar.com was infected with the malicious virus EICAR Test String and has been deleted because the file cannot be cleaned.
If a virus is found in an attachment you're trying to send, you won't be able to send the message until you remove the attachment.so I tried that out to by first trying to attach the eicar.com file to the outgoing mail for which Gmail responded as:
Hi,Lesson Learnt: "Implement your ideas (even if a prototype implementation) before someone else does it."
I came up with an idea for a new Google service and thought it would be nice to share it with you. Gmail already offers infinite storage space. This has led to people not deleting their mails but rather storing them. Now many mails do have attachments in thm which may be pictures, videos, documents, audio files etc. Its like every user has their own private online hard drive.
Now what I propse is that these attachments (not the content of mails) should be allowed to be searchable/browseable if the owner of the mail wants them to (by setting attachment permissions for that mail to public). In such a case with more and more people sharing attachments we can have a sort of online peer-to-peer file sharing system. People would then be able to search for attachments made public. This could later be evolved by enabling folksonomies (tagging).
Regards,
Anand Kishore.