This is confusing to me. How many GMail users who want to use social networking don't have a Facebook account already? It seems unlikely to me people will want to maintain a second (third, forth, etc) list of friends and upload their pictures multiple times. There's not much chance of people quitting Facebook to use GMail as a social network. Just a bad idea all around. Sometimes I feel like Google is really lacking focus. They want to be involved in everything yet they only do a few things really well.
Google to Add Social Feature to Gmail
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Re: Google to Add Social Feature to Gmail
#22>> "[To continue reading subscribe now]" Yeah how about [To continue having a viable business model stop pissing off visitors with stupid pay/subscribe walls]. Sorry, offtopic I know. It just irritates the hell out of me.
How do you suggest places like the Wall Street Journal continue to fund themselves?
Ads. This is throw away content. Maybe make some of the interesting stories into a book and sell it? :/
Re: Google to Add Social Feature to Gmail
#23Dear Google, Please stop adding things to my Gmail that make it a worst email reader. If you want to make some sort of social center, please create a new tool that ties into Gmail. Gmail was a really great product 2 years ago, but you keep adding dumb shit to it and making it less stable. Please stop. Thank you.
The additional functionality is okay with me, so long as Google keeps it in the Labs section. Just out of curiosity, what is being added that is making gmail less stable for you? In the years I have been using gmail, I've never had any issues, and I currently have 17 labs features running (FWIW).
I'm really not sure what makes it unstable for me. I've had issues across browsers (Firefox, Chrome and Safari) and OSes (Windows and Mac OS X). Something the page just stops responding, or clicks result in it's error message showing. Or clicks do nothing and I have to reload the entire thing. Nothing reproducible just lots of small issues that are basically crashes.
I use no labs features.
Re: Google to Add Social Feature to Gmail
#24Yay! ReadWriteWeb (aka, me) just posted on this too: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_creating_twitter... The best part is, they've invited me/us to the Googleplex tomorrow for an event explaining "some innovations in two of our most popular products." I'm so excited! It'll be my first time at the Mountain View campus. =)
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