When blasting through a mountain of email in the morning, you probably never stop to ponder just how each message gets delivered to its recipient. In an effort to highlight the company’s green initiatives, Google has put together a lovely animation detailing The Story of Send.
The latest iteration of Gmail boasts a trio of new features designed to help you get a handle on your inbox. Here’s what’s new.
According to The Onion, Google reportedly shut down its Gmail servers for almost two hours today. Maybe the company is getting tired of its ‘nice guy‘ image?
No, Google. I won’t let you invade my priv– wait what. What is this. Oh wow. I can finally open email links or ‘mailto’ URLs in Gmail? It doesn’t annoyingly open up the mail app I never use? Wow. Finally! This is long overdue! Yep. If you’re using Chrome, you can make e-mail links open in Gmail now.
Kevin Fox is one of the foremost user experience designers working today. He’s been a key figure at companies like Facebook, FriendFeed, Mozilla, and Yahoo. More to the point, Fox was a senior user experience design lead at Google, where he was responsible for some of its biggest properties, like Gmail, Calendar, and Google Reader.
Three ex-Google engineers have engineered a solution that turns gmail into a more Facebook like torrent of constantly shifting replies.
If you were hanging around the internet yesterday afternoon, you probably noticed some hubbub around Google’s new, unified Terms of Service Agreement. Let’s step back from the emotion (and one writer’s opinion), and take a cool-headed, analytical look at what the new policies might actually mean for you:
Every one of us knows the stomach terror of starting a project right before it’s due. But what if your assignment is Gmail’s logo, your teacher is Google, and it’s due tomorrow? Suddenly school doesn’t seem that bad.
In a radical privacy policy shift, Google announced today that it will begin tracking users across all services — email, search, YouTube and more — sharing information with no option to opt out.
