HUGE: Google Set to Make Gmail Social With Status Update Features

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9 Feb 2010

Gmail is set to become Google’s next major push into social media. According to The Wall Street Journal, the popular webmail service will soon launch a new feature for sharing content and status updates with friends. [Update: We think Google might announce these features on Tuesday]

As WSJ points out, Gmail users can already update their statuses — sort of — through Gmail’s chat feature. Currently, this feature is more akin to the traditional IM “away message.” However, with this new social push, Gmail will offer a timeline-view of your friends’ status updates, just like on Facebook and Twitter.

Those updates might come from both Gmail and third-party services. According to WSJ, Google-owned YouTube and Picasa will be integrated into the stream. The huge question then is whether or not the new feature will include updates from Twitter and Facebook.

If so, the new features could be thought of more like a TweetDeck or Seesmic, looking to provide an aggregate view of your friends’ social media activities along with the ability to push status updates to the services you use from inside of Gmail. If not, it could be thought of as a major competitor to Twitter and Facebook as Gmail looks to covert its millions of e-mail users into adherents to a whole new breed of social media service.

An issue with the latter, however, is that Gmail has historically added people to your contacts based on e-mail interactions. Hence, this contact list often varies significantly from your friends on social sites where relationships need to be made explicitly.

In other words, your Gmail contacts aren’t necessarily the same people you want to share status updates, photos and videos with. This is an issue that shouldn’t be overlooked in evaluating the new features Google is soon to unveil.


Reviews: Facebook, Gmail, Google, Picasa, Seesmic, TweetDeck, Twitter, YouTube

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12 Responses to HUGE: Google Set to Make Gmail Social With Status Update Features

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agent-X

March 10th, 2010 at 10:28 pm

Paint.NET (although it's slow like hell) or GIMP (not intuitive at all). There really aren't that much freeware alternatives for CS3..

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Thomas P

March 11th, 2010 at 2:40 pm

I suggest you tell her that at the age of 15 you are old enough to understand there are many inappropriate things on the net.

You should tell her it makes you feel uncomfortable looking at your files as well as your friends', and tell her the truth that they do host bad content sometimes, but it's normal for a teenagers. Just chill, man. Nothing to worry about.

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March 16th, 2010 at 6:11 am

On the Google homepage click on languge tools and then click on my language and select English, finally click on language tool options and select automatically selected languages.

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dwightl.geo

March 19th, 2010 at 2:32 pm

to export the bookmarks to your hard drive click on FILE > IMPORT/EXPORT

then go here

and click on the "IMPORT BOOKMARKS" link to upload them

now you can login and click on them no matter what computer you are using.

this is just one of several such sites

if you get stuck click on help at the top of the page to get help specifically for yahoo bookmarks

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ig43381

March 19th, 2010 at 6:12 pm

possible you downloaded and executed a virus.
Talk to your msn contacts to check if your user ever talks to them or sends them email. And warn them not to open any files it sends them.
If this happens then obviously someone is using your account. They can use it to infect your contacts, send spam and scams.

Did you left the password saved in your computer? or used a public or a friends pc? Remember never to save them and use an anti-virus.

BTW i don't know if you can obtain your account back, try the "forgot your password option", if it doesn't work. I don't think you can do anything else except create a new account.
Goog luck

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lost

March 20th, 2010 at 10:32 am

If you mark it as spam it will not appear in your inbox. Just clear your spam regularly and you will never notice.

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mike H

March 22nd, 2010 at 2:20 pm

you need to export the calendar – the easiest way to do this is to sync it with Outlook and then export it -

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RuBy!

March 23rd, 2010 at 12:40 pm

there just a bit of fun

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djchoppercat

March 24th, 2010 at 8:47 pm

Google's Picassa is great and the images you save will not appear on the internet unless you choose to upload them with Picassa to Picassa Web or a blogspot.com hosted blog and some other options.

Your Picassa will also pick up your Video files and organize and you can watch and play from the browser. There are good basic image editing tools built in as well. It is great for labeling your pics and adding tags that will be associated with the pictures if you do upload them to blog or picassa web and makes people searching for the subjects find your photos online.

Hope this helps and why you are at it check out some other great GOOGLE tools I am just getting turned onto and includes GOOGLE Blog Search Engine and GOOGLE Reader. For more information from me about these see my ANSWERS Profile and find the questions I answered about those too.

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Dunbar Pappy

April 2nd, 2010 at 11:15 pm

I don't see any filepath for accessing cams…
Have a look this freeware, It's really decent:
WheresJames Webcam Publisher
allows you to publish images or video from a web cam to the web. It includes various tools to enhance the image, including support for overlays, text captions (custom font and color), watermarks, time and date stamping, transparency, and translucent…etc.
http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/webpublish/fwwebcam.html

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SomeGuy9

May 5th, 2010 at 7:17 am

Files are still saved into your computers cache, but viewing it in Google's tools usually keeps you safe from viruses

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Amanda

May 9th, 2010 at 3:25 am

idk

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