Okay, I just saw the coolest thing. I was doing some research, looking into my high Adsense impressions and found out that the traffic was coming from TechCrunch. This is because of today’s article, GMail Launches Mail Fetcher, which links back to the original article on TechCrunch.
I went to TechCrunch article to see what the linkage looked like and discovered that when I moved my mouse of the link, I got a small preview of the article on my website. You can see what I saw, on the image below.
It appears a company called Snap is creating snapshots of web pages. I personally do not mind about this and like the way my site looks in the snapshot. But I think this is awesome technology and TechCrunch is providing snapshots of every trackback. It’s simple, relatively non-intrusive, and pretty nifty.
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Michael Koby 
[…] Considering what Gmail is and what Gmail may be, and considering that now you can both send to and receive from a non-Gmail account, in my opinion there is no one else (looking at Yahoo! Mail and MSN Hotmail) that can reach Gmail in terms of usability and flexibility, and of webspace availability for free. […]