Google to Add Social Feature to Gmail
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Google to Add Social Feature to Gmail
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#2Yay! 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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#3Yay! 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. =)
That WSJ article was REALLY low on information (at least in my non-payer's view), so I was glad to read your write-up.
Hopefully, this will integrate with other Google products really well and be available on my Google Profile, etc.
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#4Amazing what the power of Google's brand can do for press coverage on feature releases.
Yahoo Mail implemented this feature maybe a year ago and has the LARGER user base but got very little coverage.
http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/The-Email-Battles-Gmail-...
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#5Hooray! Congrats to the team!
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#6I wish they'd add spelling correction to their search.
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#7more info: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/technology/companies/09soc...
The meat:
The Gmail move signals that Google remains serious about becoming a social media force at a time when some of Silicon Valley’s younger start-ups have stolen some of its thunder.
"It might look like a minor feature advance, but this is another blow in the war against Facebook," said Jeremiah Owyang, a partner at Altimeter Group, a technology consulting company.
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#8What's with companies trying to be something that they're not these days? Facebook changed user's privacy settings so they could be more like Twitter, but why? Facebook does/did sharing photos, updates, and news with family and friends very well, and I can't understand why they're trying to go against that original goal of "closeness". I see the same thing happening here. I can't really see how tacking a status update feature onto Gmail will help Google in the social space.
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#9>> "[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.
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#10Dear 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.