Is someone gaming Google "Web Clips"?

In GMail today, I noticed that the "web clip" at the top of the list of emails just said:

Dictionary.com Word of the Day - Presented By: - 18 hours ago

Unclear as to what that meant, I clicked on it, and found myself on what looked like a cleverly-disguised ad for one of these "work-at-home" marketing scams, complete with misspellings:

"We knew we had to do something, so we put our heads together and started trying online job opporuntities."

Can we trust Web Clips any more?

AOL to Google "conversion" project

I know a couple of folks who are still using AOL as their email (and contact and favorites) service. Some of them are receptive to moving to Google, so I've started working on helping them. A few weeks ago I actually put together a "business plan" for a service that would provide this functionality:

http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dgjndsm4_0c68v7vcn

In the meantime, however, Google came out with their conversion service:

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/import-your-mail-and-contacts-from.html

It's not complete, but it's free, and thus that business plan hits the dust. I am, however, going to continue my efforts to help folks that do want to move their data from AOL to Google:

http://www.chriskeith.me/ck/Home/overview

I probably won't be updating this blog with every change that goes here, but will occasionally mention significant milestones. Feel free to pass this on to anyone that uses AOL (if you actually know anyone who does...) but wants to move to Google.