Gmail has something more — Picture and Sound!
Anyone using Gmail? If the answer is YES, then the new functions just launched by google may be an interesting news to look at.
"Contact photos" is the function allowing you upload a picture of yourself to your Google account, suggest a contact photo for yourself to your friends, and assign photos to your contacts. As more and more contacts are added into your account, it should be a handy way to visualize your contact list by photos. You can even suggest pictures for any one of your contacts. (Don’t be nasty then~) More, if you use the chatting feature in gmail, you’ll instantly know who’s talking to by seeing the picture, no more guessing around!
Well, the "sound notifications" works this way–there’s a "ping" when people send you a chat. Now you can work in other windows without worrying about missing a message from your friend. I guess the intention from google is trying to make it more like a IM system then~~
I am a total advocate of the old gmail. Sounds like their adding even more ingenious solutions. I like sounds, and the photo option sounds interesting. Although I get bored of looking at the same photo of myself or anyone else. Often I find my memory of that person is reduced to that sole photo. I must say though on occasion I have looked through my address book and forgotten who some contacts are. I say three cheers to GMAIL, for letting you do soooooo very much.
Comment by rahima hayes — May 22, 2006 @ 9:56 am
I really like the new gmail calendar. It is sooooo much bettter than ical and you can subscribe to it via RSS. I also like the way they present the e-mails in the form of a conversation. It is great when I am at work and have to e-mail my boss every 5 min because we can both keep track of the converation. As for the photos, I’m not sure that I’d really use them. Perhaps it would be good to put you company logo there instead?
Comment by Kristin Stephensen — May 27, 2006 @ 7:47 am