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Tue 9 Feb 2010

Google Buzz: Google Takes On Twitter, Facebook & Even Foursquare

Posted by Admin under Google: Buzz, Google: Gmail, Google: Mobile, Google: Place Pages, Latest Info, Top News, facebook, twitter

Google has announced a new product called Google Buzz, which represents the company’s latest attempt to hitch its wagon to the popularity of social networking and, more specifically, the growth of social sharing and status updates.
Many will call this a Twitter killer or a threat to Facebook. Certainly the company is targeting the audiences that [...]

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Mon 8 Feb 2010

Report: Google To Announce A More Social Gmail

Posted by Admin under Google: Gmail, Latest Info

There are several reports today that Google is set to announce a new social feature inside Gmail, allowing users to see (and add to) a stream of status updates from friends and connections.
While Twitter is all abuzz over the news, this is something that Yahoo Mail has offered its 300 million users since last [...]

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Tue 12 Jan 2010

Google Just Says No To China: Ending Censorship, Due To Gmail Attack

Posted by Admin under Features: Analysis, Google: Business Issues, Google: Critics, Google: Gmail, Google: Security, Latest Info, Legal: Censorship, Search Engines: China Search Engines, Top News

Google has revealed that the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists were targeted last December in a hacking attempt. That, along with other issues, has convinced the company that it will no longer censor results China as the Chinese government wishes.
In particular, Google has willingly allowed self-censored its search results since January 27, 2006, [...]

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Tue 29 Sep 2009

Google Broadening Wave Access With GMail-Like Rollout

Posted by Admin under Google: Gears, Google: General, Google: Gmail, Google: iGoogle, Latest Info

As we previously reported, starting tomorrow Google will widen access to its innovative communications platform Wave, offering 100,000 new invitations to use the service. Many of these people in turn will be allowed to invite others to join as well, reminiscent of how GMail propagated. (It’s wise for Google to allow these new users to [...]

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Thu 10 Sep 2009

Get Your Google Voice Messages Directly in Gmail

Posted by Admin under Google: Gmail, Latest Info

If you use Google Voice, then you’re familiar with getting notifications via email alerting you to a new voice mail message. The email contains a transcription of the message plus a link to go and listen to it.

Now, Google has updated the alert so that you can play the message directly in your Gmail acocunt. In order to access the new feature, you need to turn on the Google Voice Player in the Gmail Labs tab.

When you’ve listened to a voice mail in Gmail, it will sync with your Google Voice inbox. This means that once listened to, it will essentially “mark as read” in your Google Voice account as well.

 

Fri 28 Aug 2009

Google Expanding Access To Wave Soon, First “Hands-On” Impressions

Posted by Admin under Google: Gadgets, Google: Gmail, Google: iGoogle, Latest Info

At the end of next month, September 30, Google will expand the current “developer preview” of Google Wave to roughly 100,000 consumer users. According to Google, “included in this group of early testers will be some of the businesses using Google Apps.” In anticipation of this wider release, Danny and I got some time with Lars Rasmussen [...]

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Thu 28 May 2009

Google’s New Wave Of Ambition

Posted by Admin under Google: General, Google: Gmail, Google: Labs, Google: Mobile, Google: Orkut, Google: Outside US, Latest Info

I’m in the Google Wave press conference, following a dizzying keynote — dizzying, at least, after a night of little sleep. As he did yesterday Google co-founder Sergey Brin joined the discussion and similarly apologized for arriving late.

Danny live blogged the keynote earlier this morning. He jokingly compared Wave to Lotus Notes. In some respects [...]

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Thu 14 May 2009

Google Services Go Down For Many

Posted by Admin under Google: General, Google: Gmail, Google: Web Search, Latest Info

Currently, many people who use Google’s services, including web search, Gmail, Google Reader and other products are either down or incredibly slow for some Google users. For Danny and myself, we are able to access these services with no problem. However, if you look at recent Tweets about Google, you will notice [...]

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Wed 13 May 2009

Gmail: All Your Emails Are Belong To Us

Posted by Admin under Google: Gmail, Latest Info

Google is removing one of the most common excuses for not using Gmail: “It’s such a pain in the (beep) to switch!”
The company announced a new tool that simplifies the process of importing emails and contacts from other providers, including bigger competitors like Yahoo Mail and Hotmail.
All new Gmail users have access to the import [...]

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Fri 8 May 2009

Gmail Goes Offline Again

Posted by Admin under Google: Gmail, Latest Info

Gmail has now been offline for the past twenty minutes or so. Just take a look at Twitter Search to see how many people are upset with the downtime.
Here is a screen capture:

This outage seems to be impacting both web access, pop access and imap access.
Hopefully this outage won’t be as long or serious [...]

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Thu 30 Apr 2009

Google Adds Search Box Inside Gmail

Posted by Admin under Google: Gmail, Google: Web Search, Latest Info

The newest addition to Gmail Labs is an option that adds a Google search box to your Gmail inbox interface. When activated, the search box appears below the “Labels” section of the left navbar, like this:

(Of course, there’s a drag and drop option in Gmail Labs, too, that will let you move the search box [...]

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Tue 21 Apr 2009

Gmail, Google Maps Among Fastest-Rising Google Properties

Posted by Admin under Google: Gmail, Google: Maps & Local, Google: Web Search, Latest Info, Stats: Hitwise

Gmail and Google Maps are two of Google’s hottest properties, while YouTube and Google Image Search are falling on the list of the most popular Google properties. That’s according to Hitwise data that tracked U.S. visits to Google sites during the month of March:

Gmail is the big winner here, surpassing YouTube as the number [...]

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Thu 19 Mar 2009

Google Adds YouTube Feature to Gmail Labs

Posted by Admin under Google: Gmail, Latest Info

When you get a link to a YouTube video to your Gmail account, wouldn’t it be nice to view the video right then and there without opening a new tab or window? You’re not the only one who thinks so. A new Gmail Labs feature enables just that.

Turn on the new feature by clicking on “Settings” in the top right corner of your Gmail page. Then look for “Labs.” Previews for Picasa, Flickr and Yelp have been added as well.

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Related Reading:
Gmail Offers Extra Level of Protection for Late Night and Weekend Emails
Google Returns Search Web Option To Gmail

 

Wed 18 Mar 2009

New Privacy Complaint Filed Against Google (And The Cloud)

Posted by Admin under Google: Critics, Google: Docs & Spreadsheets, Google: Gmail, Latest Info, Legal: Security

Yet another privacy complaint has been filed against Google with the FTC, this time by the Electronic Privacy Information Center over Google’s cloud computing services and related privacy and data security issues. While Google is the named party, the company is basically the stand-in for “the cloud” as a whole. (If you want to read [...]

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Wed 11 Mar 2009

Hitwise: Visits To Gmail Surpass YouTube

Posted by Admin under Google: Gmail, Google: YouTube & Video, Latest Info

Hitwise reported that “for the past two weeks, the market share of US Internet visits to Gmail has been higher than visits to YouTube.” Accordingly, the measurement firm says that Gmail is now second only to Google.com in terms of visits among Google’s properties.
Gmail has recently had a number of problems, with several outages and [...]

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Wed 11 Feb 2009

Gmail Labs Adds Location To Signatures

Posted by Admin under Google: Gmail, Latest Info, Top News

The Gmail Blog announced that you can now activate a new labs feature that will append your current location to your email signature, when you use Gmail or Google Apps email within the Gmail interface.
To activate it, go to “Settings” and click on “Labs.” Scroll down to the location feature and enable it. Then [...]

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Mon 19 Jan 2009

GDrive: It’s Alive! — Or So It Appears

Posted by Admin under Google: General, Google: Gmail, Google: Other, Latest Info

There’s new buzz and speculation about the status of Google’s unconfirmed online file storage service, informally dubbed “GDrive.” Garrett Rogers points to a CNET interview with Gmail Product Manager Todd Jackson, who’s quoted saying:
“We know people’s file sizes are getting bigger. They want to share their files, keep them in the cloud, and not worry [...]

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Tue 28 Oct 2008

Gmail Adds Gadgets & Google Reader Adds Subscription Stats

Posted by Admin under Google: Gmail, Google: Reader, Latest Info

The Gmail Blog announced a new labs option that gives Gmail users the ability to add Google Calendar, Google Docs and other gadgets directly on their Gmail interface. Plus, Steve Rubel reports Google Reader has added subscription statistics, which I find to be awesome.
Let me explore both features…