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It’s about time! Gmail image inserting

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I’m a Gmail user since summer 2004. At the time, you still had only 6 invites for your friends, so it was quite hard to get in. But when you did, in 2004, it was a COMPLETE revolution. Nothing was AJAX at the time, and such a seamless execution of online email was a technology breakthrough.

And, as I wrote yersterday, Gmail has been continuously improving since then. But two things has been lacking all the way. Two very Very VERY basic things: in-line imagine inserting and html signature. What this means in basic proper English is that you couldn’t insert images in the text, or add formatting / nice links / logos in your signature.

It was like traveling in a broken Ferrari with manual windows…

And finally, here comes image inserting! Woot woot hooray! It was about time…

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What if …? Gmail vs Facebook vs Twitter

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Gmail LogoSome random free-thinking this morning…

Gmail Labs introduced the “Sender time zone” into Gmail. It displays in which timezone the person who sent you an email is, and if you should/could call or not.

Nothing fancy, just useful.

Useful - that’s what Gmail is about, and has always been for its now 110M+ user base. And since the introduction of Labs and Gadgets, if became even more powerful. For instance, you can now share emails with embedded YouTube videos or Flickr images. You now have a full twitter client inside Gmail with TwitterGadget. You can also have Google docs right inside your sidebar. In the side bar too, Google Calendar, with private or public events. And so on.

Add to all of this the voice+video chat, that allows seamlessly to share files, videos, images, and chat one-to-one or one-to-many, and you have many ingredients for a successful social network.

Finally, Gmail status. Poorly implemented today, but it could be very powerful, and when you think about it, it’s not far from the Facebook status updates (commenting, and easier posting). Add search, which is not where Google lacks knowhow, and Boom! you have a twitter.

Would people use Gmail as they would use Twitter or Facebook? Probably not. Gmail is for emailing. Facebook to exchange pictures, videos, updates and messages with friends. Twitter for crowd-messaging.

But could they? Definitely.

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Can that be suggested as a Levis commercial ? 

501 unread emails in my Gmail Inbox.

Never been that full … I guess there’s going to be a lot of “Select All” and “Mark as Read” soon …

The spam option is quite surprinsing. There has always been quite a lot of spam in my mailbox, but since gmail upgraded the storage, it seems to be increasing …

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