Saturday, January 12, 2008

This post was sent to blogger by Gmail

mmmzeg.anyname@blogger.com is an email address that I used it to submit any post to this blog

Blogger map the email title to the post title and the message body to post content

Many reasons make me use this facility now, some are in my mind now and others will be added later

1- GMail composer is lighter,simpler,stabler than blog poster
2- Make one message send to many blogs at the same time
3- Blog poster make the post creation date is the time where you start editing so although I publish a post today it may not be the first post in the blog home due to old draft date. So it is better to store the post in GMail as draft then send to publish
4- You can use this facility to automate the posting from other content eg; your homopage
I remember my friend S.H. aka "El-7aramy" in Arabic, aka "The Thief" in English
He used this service to publish our company content over WordPress blogger by making a web service and making a loop sending emails to many precreated blogs.
We as a company thought that this will allow search engines to crawl our content from bloggers and to be top ranked in the search results.
But the after 3xx loop iterations WordPress marked his IP as a spamer and they banned it :D

Some missed facilities in this method
1-The privew button
2-HTML layout
3-Embedding a video or flash object. "I don't know why till today we can't embed a video in an email message"

Some weakness
1- Any one know this email address can post at your blog even if he isn't an author of the blog "I tested it by sending a post from my yahoo account"

This weakness can be a strengthen from other point of view:
Suppose we made a public blog and in the hello world post we published its email address so that all the globe can post on this blog and in this case it will be the global blog

Really I thought in some idea near that:
Many times I got FWD: ---- emails I discard them due to unsuitable time but some people has the hobby to FWD them to trash our mail accounts
So what about making a FWD blog and publish its email address at its home so all people love FDWind post on it, and all people love FWDs check this blog and I think that this blog will gather a lot of Ads in this case

2- Tracing a blog author will be more harder as instead of tracing the request of a single page of posting, You need to trace all the mail providers send messages to the blog

That is all until now.

This post sent to blogger by Gmail

No comments: