railfan wrote
(in article
. com):
Google is offering free website space, 100MB. Quite basic and simple,
with quite a few templetes you can use. I have two and they seem to
work pretty good. The user name you choose is in the URL -
http://yourchosenname.googlepages.com/. Can't beat the price!
And you can't tweak it and maintain it to suit yourself. As I
said, there is a tradeoff between super easy to use and
functionality.
If $6 a month is too much, then perhaps the pictures aren't
worth putting on the web in the first place. If you just want
free photo space, flickr seems to do the job.
Besides, the downside is with google pages is a biggie.
From
http://www.onedegree.ca/2006/02/23/b...h-google-pages
But you might want to think twice before you hit ³publish².
See that last feature (simple memorable URLS) is also the
greatest weakness of Google Pages and I think it is going to
cause a huge headache for Gmail users. And a potential PR
nightmare for Google.
Why?
When you hit publish your site goes live at
username.googlepages.com.
Nothing wrong with that. In fact it looks like a feature - if
you can remember your Gmail address you can remember your
³Gpages² address.
The problem is it is now trivial to reverse engineer your Gmail
e-mail address. If you see a Google Pages site and want to
e-mail the author - just replace googlepages.com with gmail.com.
I was all set to tell my kids and my 85 year-old mother (all
Gmail users) that they could now post a web page or two super
easy, but Iım not going to. Iıve worked very hard to make sure
theyıre their addresses are not easy to find online and with one
click of the publish button Google will make their e-mail
addresses available to every stalker, sexual predator, phisher,
and spammer out there!
I suggest you tell those non-technical users you know and care
about that they should NOT use Gpages at this time. Right now
Iıd have to say that Gpages users are just setting themselves up
for a whole heap of spam if they decide to post a site.
How long will it take spammers to get Gmail harvesters out in
droves searching for URLs that can be converted into valid Gmail
addresses?
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"The power of accurate observation is called cynicism by those
who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw