[PC] New Gmail Social Features To Launch? Details On The Rumor

**AMEX** · 02-08-2010, 10:50 PM

New Gmail Social Features To Launch? Details On The Rumor

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Google may be adding new social features to Gmail that would allow users to more quickly and easily share status updates and media the Wall Street Journal reports, citing 'people familiar with the matter.'

Gmail's new feature would make it 'a little more like Facebook,' says the Wall Street Journal's Jessica Vascellaro (see video below). 'Google is hoping that if people are spending some time checking out what their friends are up to on Gmail, that's time they may not be checking what their friends are up to on Facebook.'

The Wall Street Journal detailed capabilities the new social media tool might include:

Currently, Gmail has a chat bar that can display a short "away message" for each user's contacts. But the new interface will have an area that users can click through to see updates from more friends in a stream--a format popularized by Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc., these people said.

Google also plans to integrate content that is shared through its YouTube video-sharing service and its Picasa photo-sharing service into the stream of status updates, according to one person familiar with the matter. But whether Google will launch those features in the coming days remains unclear.

A Google spokesperson declined to comment on any forthcoming Gmail features, although the Wall Street Journal suggested the social features could be unveiled later this week.

The Business Insider described the rumored Gmail additions as Google's 'Twitter killer.'

Read more on the Wall Street Journal.

**STi_1212** · 02-08-2010, 10:52 PM

This will probably seem like a stupid question but I'm still using my hotmail account is there any real reason to swap out?

**mandingomeatsteak** · 02-08-2010, 11:10 PM

Gmail is MUCH better at filtering. They also appear to have a lot more nifty user friendly features.

On the other hand, if what this article is referring to is something along the lines of what Yahoo is trying to do (implementing social networking into email service) then I have to say
FUCKING NO!

**STi_1212** · 02-08-2010, 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by mandingomeatsteak

Gmail is MUCH better at filtering. They also appear to have a lot more nifty user friendly features.

On the other hand, if what this article is referring to is something along the lines of what Yahoo is trying to do (implementing social networking into email service) then I have to say
FUCKING NO!

Oh I see. Well I've never really had an issue with what hotmail has going on now in terms of filtering and user friendliness.

**AMEX** · 02-09-2010, 09:01 AM

Gmail is definitely its own animal. i think they realized that wave and gmail could be combined to create a facebook experience. google wave is more of a social app than anything else.

**AMEX** · 02-09-2010, 12:34 PM

GOOGLE BUZZ!

Live From Google's February Event: Google Gets Twittery - Google - Gizmodo

**timmy** · 02-09-2010, 12:39 PM

I'm starting to think that google can't come up with something on their own. So they just make a slightly different version and advertise the hell out of it.

**AMEX** · 02-09-2010, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by timmy

I'm starting to think that google can't come up with something on their own. So they just make a slightly different version and advertise the hell out of it.

My guess is they see how important social media is these days and figure they can not only cash in on it but also improve it using a system they already have and millions of people already use, gmail.

Google owns searches, they have an awesome phone OS in android, arguably the most non office based email system, and now if they take over social media they will have four of the largest things the average person uses on a daily basis

**timmy** · 02-09-2010, 12:49 PM

I don't see them overtaking twitter and facebook though. It looks like they are just johnny-come-latelys.

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