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29 December 2011, 11:00 PM
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Gmail ad
I saw the ad on TV for gmail where a bloke in the ad sets up an email account for his daughter and sends her emails with photos to mark milestones in her life. Which the ad suggests they will look at together when she is older.
I thought this was a good idea, and having some spare time while off work over the Christmas period I have started to do the same for my kids who are now both 18 months old.
Has anyone else done something similar, after seeing the ad?
Wonder will gmail still be around when they are old enough to have access to their accounts.
I thought this was a good idea, and having some spare time while off work over the Christmas period I have started to do the same for my kids who are now both 18 months old.
Has anyone else done something similar, after seeing the ad?
Wonder will gmail still be around when they are old enough to have access to their accounts.
30 December 2011, 10:59 AM
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Gmail currently gives you 7GB storage space for a standard-sized mailbox, and this is only likely to increase in future. That should be enough for quite a few photos.
As for gmail still being around in 17 or 18 years time, unless the whole of the internet itself somehow suddenly ceased to exist I really can't see that being an issue. Google is one of the most powerful corporations in the history of the planet, and it's not going to disappear overnight.
As for gmail still being around in 17 or 18 years time, unless the whole of the internet itself somehow suddenly ceased to exist I really can't see that being an issue. Google is one of the most powerful corporations in the history of the planet, and it's not going to disappear overnight.
30 December 2011, 11:17 AM
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It sounds like something a pedophile mastermind would invent. What's wrong with a photo album. Or a usp drive if you wanna be hi-tech and store thousands of photos.
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Dvds start to degrade after a few years? As long as gmail doesn't pull a hotmail and delete all your email because you haven't logged in for 30 days!
30 December 2011, 06:06 PM
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You put them onto whatever format is in vogue at the time. Hardware format (DVD, CD, flash drive, positronic brain cell, wotever) and software format (jpg, tiff, gif, etc etc). If you keep them local you can do whatever you want ....Dave
30 December 2011, 07:09 PM
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I put together a 'My first year' for my friends first child as a suprise for them, mixture of photo's and video's from birth to first birthday made into a movie and put onto DVD - brought them to tears watching it,especially as I mixed their favorite song into the movie too - something they will treasure forever.
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If you keep local you can sob when house burns down or robbed
30 December 2011, 08:39 PM
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@Ollie - cracking ad in my opinion, was it Google who came up with the concept for the ad, or was the creative element from your company.
I have over 200Gb of photos and video clips of my kids, these are stored on my primary NAS, which is rsync'd nightly to my secondary NAS, which is backed up every weekend to an "off-site" NAS. So if there is a disaster at home, I will only loose a week of changes. Lots of storage space locally, and lots of photos too. What I liked was the ability to create a quick note, of thoughts, facts or feelings all in one place about a specific moment or event and provide the photo or photos as attachments.
I could have done this in several ways and saved or hosted it locally, Google sowed the seed in my mind and I followed the lead from their advert.
I have over 200Gb of photos and video clips of my kids, these are stored on my primary NAS, which is rsync'd nightly to my secondary NAS, which is backed up every weekend to an "off-site" NAS. So if there is a disaster at home, I will only loose a week of changes. Lots of storage space locally, and lots of photos too. What I liked was the ability to create a quick note, of thoughts, facts or feelings all in one place about a specific moment or event and provide the photo or photos as attachments.
I could have done this in several ways and saved or hosted it locally, Google sowed the seed in my mind and I followed the lead from their advert.
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