Last time, I gushed about how great Google has been at handling the duties of managing domain email for Dena and me. I do have one issue to gripe about. Google offers various other handy-dandy services: Maps, Video, Bookmarks, Browser Sync, Notebook, and so on. All of which allow you to sign-in and store personal settings. The catch? You have to be using a Gmail account to do so. Even saving settings for Google Desktop requires signing in with a Gmail account. I’d rather use my own chrisbellini.com email address, which Google manages, than my rarely-used Gmail account (I only use it for filling out web forms on unfamiliar sites or contests). It hardly seems like it would pose a problem from a techie database POV for them to allow this functionality.
I’m not all that starry-eyed after all 🙂
