In light of Gmail's updated e-mail import feature, which was released on Wednesday, we put together a short video to show you how to use it.
The good news is that it's incredibly easy. So easy anyone can do it. Then again, if you're new to Gmail (which is just the type of person this feature is aimed at), the process can be confusing.
We take you through the steps of entering in your old information, and what it looks like when the process is all done. To see this in glorious HD, head over to CNET TV.
If video's not your thing, here's a step-by-step slideshow that shows you how to do it:
Video service Ffwd has a new tool out for Facebook users that lets them import their videos from the Web into their news feeds and fan pages.
Similar to what Splashcast once did with its Facebook application (which has since been discontinued), Ffwd gives you the option to import a specific video feed, be it your favorites or all videos you've uploaded, and turn it into a content channel. This means you can have it automatically post to your Facebook wall every time you upload a new clip. You cannot, however, select individual clips to be sent to your Feed. A small workaround is to set up to post your favorites, then bookmark the clips back on the video service you're using.
Where this comes in handy is for content providers who want to re-syndicate content they're putting on these sites, onto Facebook without having to worry about the setup or upkeep. In turn, users get to watch the videos right on the page without leaving the site.
Right now this app only works with YouTube and Brightcove, so if you've got your videos elsewhere you're out of luck. The company says more services will be added shortly, along with the option to add any video stream by its RSS feed. Until it gets those extra services, this application is somewhat limited. In comparison I'm using FriendFeed which has been set up to post to my Facebook wall any time I upload or bookmark a video on about five different sites. I can also manage what it's posting from both FriendFeed and Facebook.
In the meantime, if you're just interested in doing this for just YouTube there are several other pre-existing Facebook apps that can post your latest uploads or favorites to your wall.
Ffwd's Facebook app lets you suck in videos from YouTube, Brightcove, and soon other video services.
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Just a little more than a week ago Google announced it would no longer be developing Google Notebook, its free collaborative notes and bookmarks service. While this doesn't mean the service is closing its doors--and more importantly, not allowing people to create and work on new notebooks--most folks will want to move to something that's (hopefully) going to have bugs fixed and a person to talk to when things go wrong.
On Friday we put together a short list of possible alternatives, and now several of those have come up with import tools that will grab whatever you had put together in Google Notebook so you can continue to work on it.
The latest service to come up with an importer is Zoho Notebook. Late last night the company rolled out a new version of its Zoho Notebook plug-in that lets you slurp up all your Google Notebook entries with one button. To go along with this there's also a new option in Zoho Notebook called "text pages" that attempts to emulate the drag-and-drop text list ordering found in Google Notebook. For now the tool is Firefox-only, and cannot display anything besides text clippings when viewing your notebooks from the its small pop-up window.
Ubernote's co-founder Joshua Ho pinged me to let me know that he and his team had a 24-hour coding "marathon" to put together a Google Notebook importer. After working out some kinks with duplicate tags and some stray parsing errors the tool looks up to snuff.
The good news about Ubernote's iteration is that you don't need to install a browser plug-in like Zoho is requiring. The bad news is that you have to go into Google Notebook to export each notebook individually, then re-upload the files to Ubernote one at a time. If you have a ton of Google Notebooks this might be a royal pain in the you know what.
If you want to offload Google Notebooks to your local machine there's always the HTML option.
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Diigo, which I did not originally include in the Google Notebook alternatives post, but offers many things that Google Notebookers might find attractive, is also working on an importer. It's not out yet, but should be soon.
Likewise, Evernote is hard at work on an import tool of its own. I'm told it will be ready on Thursday. In the meantime, if you have a healthy knowledge of coding language Python, Livejournal user rainyrhy has put together this script which will take exported Google notebook pages and convert them into .enex files which Evernote can then import. This probably isn't the best option for most folks, and will chop up any pictures you might have saved on the service.
If you were a user of the previously blogged about Twitter-to-FriendFeed Contact sync tool by Carter Rabasa, you'll be pleased to know similar functionality is now built-in to FriendFeed. On Tuesday the company quietly launched its own importer as part of its other friend-finding tools.
To find buddies from Twitter who are also using FriendFeed you simply type in your Twitter username and it does the rest. Unlike Rabasa's tool, there's no need to give the service either your Twitter password, or (obviously) the one you use for FriendFeed. As an added bonus, FriendFeed's import tool also lets you take whichever friends you've selected and add them to a new friends list--that is if you're into that level of organization.
I'd love to see this same kind of tool extended to other popular social services. While Twitter is an obvious match, I'd love to see it dig through Facebook, MySpace, and other places where I have typically met the people on my friends list.
The new Twitter importing tool from FriendFeed scours your Twitter friends list and lets you know if any of those users are also on FriendFeed.
(Credit: CNET Networks)It's always those little things spotted in a foreign country that I wish I'd grabbed more of to bring back home, like $2 cartoon-print chopsticks from Tokyo, a $3 sack of paprika from Budapest, or $1 bottles of local lavender oil from Zagreb. I may not revisit those places, but I could ask for someone going there to snag some stuff for me. If you're my friend, however, that could interfere with your carefree vacation. Why not ask a stranger instead?
Bringsome is built just for that. Travelers on the site offer to bring back goodies from abroad, while homebound folks describe the goods they'd like. Although global commerce and the Internet seemingly enable you to get anything from anywhere, many local items still can't easily be ordered.
The next time you're in Europe, for instance, please bring me a pile of Niederegger marzipan in kooky fruit and farm animal shapes. The next time I travel, I guess I could pack something only found in San Francisco, like some original 1960s rock posters, or some quirky paintings by local artists. I could deliver an iPhone to the Bringsome user who wants one in Copenhagen, but could he use it there?
Bringsome users ask for and offer stuff from abroad.
Bringsome is a rough draft in pre-beta testing, and it shows. There are currently only 11 ads. The site needs to be more clear about where you're bringing stuff to and from, since only one location is prominent right now. If its execution improves, this is a wonderful concept that really should be built into a travel site with a large community already set up, such as Lonely Planet or iGoUgo. Bringsome should have maps, too.
Of course, Bringsome isn't responsible if you try smuggling something dumb and illegal, like the antique swords sold at Russian airports, or a stash of something ordered at a cafe in Amsterdam.
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