The Chronicles Of Gmail
The Gmail team is finally showing other Googlers how to have fun in public; they’ve released a video showing off how Gmail can make your life easier and save your ass, complete with puppets made out of common office supplies. Hilarious stuff, take a look:
Yes, Google now has its own official YouTube account, and in just a week they’ve amassed about 500 subscribers. How the hell do you subscribe via RSS to a YouTube channel?
Ah, here we go! To subscribe to Google’s YouTube videos, just add this to your RSS reader:
feed://www.youtube.com/rss/user/google/videos.rss
And to subscribe to my videos, you could use this one:
Thanks for the link, Nathan. The ads are surprisingly good, don’t you think?
Comment by Pete Cashmore | February 23, 2007
spend more time innovating and less time on videos.
Is it not embarassing for these people to have a product that’s been in beta for almost 3 years now? Gmail burst out of the gate and was light-years ahead of other clients, but they’ve basicaly stalled since then, adding only incremental improvements and a couple big features (e.g. chat). It’s time for some major interface refreshes to stay ahead of Yahoo and Live.
off the top of my head - some kind of internal tabbed interface, to have multiple emails open at once
- TIGHT integration with other google apps. Not just a damn link to open the calendar in a new window, or open a doc in Google docs. EMBEDDED and integrated doc and calendar views.
Comment by joe | February 23, 2007
Just so you know: the feed:// prefix does not appear to work in IE7. It’s probably not a W3C recommendation either, is it?
The video is funny, but I’d really like it if they’d allow me to do my own spam filtering. Just give me a filter that says “move to inbox”, and then make sure I can apply the filter to ALL mail that will be received.
Comment by Tim | February 23, 2007
Has anyone noticed that the standard Gmail service seems to have suddenly slowed down?
I’ve noticed in the past 48 hours that I sometimes have to wait 5-10 seconds after sending a small piece of mail. This never happened before.
Comment by Timbo | February 27, 2007