Just wanted a place to keep links to books I read or stumble upon.

• Paper prototyping [amazon]

Wow, that was painful. If you are using gmail, you will currently loose all your tags when moving to google apps (GA). You can only guess what the migration tool will support. But here are the steps I had to take to get my mail on to GA:

• First of all set up all the filters you can think of in GA I have around 40.
• On gmail, move to settings and forwarding and POP, set the Enable POP for all mail.
• Start up your mail client and start POPing all mail (thunderbird is quite good and handles MBOX format)
• When done, create a account for an IMAP capable mail provider in the client.
• Now move all mail to the IMAP inbox, sent mail as well, GA will handle it well and sort it as conversations.
• In GA start POPing the mail from the mail provider.

Sit back with a good book 8500 mails took about 48h, I did some checkup and sorting underway, added a few extra filters. The 8500 mails translated to about 3600 conversations.What I wish for in GA now is better filter handling, it’s too limited. If it's not limited i am missing something and it should be easier to handle. Also, port the java application to handle GA on your phone, love the gmail version. But then again, blackberry may have bought exclusives on GA...

Why, for the love of god (as atheist I am), do they not include IMAP in Google Apps. At least they should offer migration from one GMail account to another. I mean, they have full access their own data. It should be easy to move from one account to another with the tags and stuff intact. In that way they can keep track of the personal data.I have about 8500 mail in my account. I downloaded all of these to my computer through pop. The reason is that I though that GMail loader could solve the problem with uploading, and I wanted a local copy as well before I started fiddling with my accounts.Well GMail loader can, in some way severely limited way solve your problem. It sends the mail up via SMPT. But, apart from being painfully slow, in about 150 mails, my provider shut down my SMTP (well, if I was spamming this would be a good idea). So now I have all mails stuck in my thunderbird box.Next step then, upload them to our old email server via IMAP, and then POP from there. Luckily we still have it. The result: well it works, kind of. The first 200 got there immediately, the next took two minutes, third took four minutes. And now it has been silent for about an hour. If this continues I suspect that I would never get all 8500 mails up there.So my question is: If you want to give mail space to the masses, and start analyzing their mail for free, you'd better support the masses with the tools they need. Never delete another email again, well not until you support the users. If you want to sell a premium service coming soon isn't soon enough.I'll keep you posted on my progress... and anyone having a better solution leave a comment.