Google Cares That You’re Are Addicted to Email
Posted in Random by Dan at 10:39 am
This post was published 1 year 5 months 3 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Yesterday Google Labs rolled out a few test feartures into GMail, with my favorite being a 15 minute self imposed “block” you can impose – that forces you to do something else.
There should be about 13 new features, including:
- A tool that lets you bookmark specific gmail messages
- Superatars tool that lets you choose custom stars to label your mail
- Mouse Gestures
- See profile pictures in Gmail chat
- An “email addict” option that lets you ban yourself from checking your email for 15 minutes
Right now all of the features will be created by Gmail engineers, but eventually Google may open the project so that third parties can create Gmail features that will be available to the general public. In the meantime, anyone can send feedback to the developers behind each add-on. Eventually the most popular add-ons will be added to Gmail. [via]
I think the move to add Google approved plugins to GMail is a welcomed move and has the potential to solidify the virtual lock Google has as the defacto email provider.
Google has long been the de facto search engine for most. Let’s hope it’s soon that people think Gmail when thinking about free webmail instead of Yahoo or Hotmail.
I tried to get this to work in work but we only use IE 6 and the Labs tab didn’t show =[
Even after following this LifeHacker post it still doesn’t work!