Good Grief, Another Significant Gmail Enhancement: Previews
By Harry McCracken | Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 11:54 am
I’ve officially given up trying to keep pace with each and every feature Google adds to Gmail, but this one looks neat: There’s a new Gmail Labs option that enables in e-mail viewing of Flickr and Picasa photos, YouTube videos, and Yelp reviews. Gmail notices links to this content, and simply embeds it in your message so you don’t need to click away to see what a friend has sent you.
Google says it’s interested in talking to other companies with services that could be embedded into Gmail–and it would be pretty neat if the idea was extended to just about any sort of content that anyone ever links to in an e-mail…
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links for 2009-03-20 | Seth Goldstein Online Says:
March 20th, 2009 at 5:01 pm[…] Good Grief, Another Significant Gmail Enhancement: Previews | Technologizer I’ve officially given up trying to keep pace with each and every feature Google adds to Gmail, but this one looks neat: There’s a new Gmail Labs option that enables in e-mail viewing of Flickr and Picasa photos, YouTube videos, and Yelp reviews. Gmail notices links to this content, and simply embeds it in your message so you don’t need to click away to see what a friend has sent you. (tags: gmail labs gmail-labs previews) […]
March 19th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
It definitely makes sense, since you can embed them in other online applications and blogs!! I love the enhancement, gives me one less thing to click through to when I check my gmail account on my webtop.