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Google Gears is a lot more than an offline version of Reader. Yeah, that’s totally awesome but it has much larger implications than that. I won’t get into it all here, because a lot of people have already done an excellent job of explaining it.

For the best post out there I would check out ZDnet’s blog and the IT Matters podcast.

I can’t believe they did not roll out Gmail offline at the same time as Reader!

It’s also interesting that Gmail, before Gears came out, worked offline well. You could not save or send or anything like that, but I never lost something I was typing and the transition from online to offline and back was seamless. The only way you would know (aside from not being able to do a few things) is that chat would become unavailable and it would not autosave.

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