Extending Gmail
Jerry Su & Ben Zotto
August 2008
{jerry, ben}@xoopit.com
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What is Xoopit?
  A company in the Mission district.
  A web service that indexes media in email.
  A Firefox extension that brings Xoopit experience into web mail.
  Show you what we’re up to and start a conversation about building a
platform on top of web email.
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Xoopit demo
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Creating a platform within Gmail
  Firefox extension
  Gmail Greasemonkey API
  Xoopit Javascript
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Firefox extension
  Based on Greasemonkey
  Allows cross-domain XMLHttpRequests
  HTTP/S directly to Xoopit web service.
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