Gmail Labs: Default text styling
Gmail editor now supports custom default text style for your messages! You can turn on default text styling from the Labs tab, then go to Settings and set your preferences just once.
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Twitter i Facebook w Gmailu
Dla tych, którym oba serwisy potrzebne są zawsze i wszędzie - dwie, zewnętrzne wtyczki dla gmaila. W teorii nic specjalnego, ale działają i przy okazji wskazały mi trzecie, ale już oficjalne rozwiązanie. Umożliwia ono odpalenie zewnętrznych/nieoficjalnych dodatków w interfejsie poczty google'a.Step by step: zakładki ustawień poczty - labs - odpalamy ostatni na liście gadżet "Add any gadget by URL" - z jego pomocą dodajemy dwa zamieszczone poniżej linki.
Twitter: http://www.twittergadget.com/gadget_gmail.xml
Facebook: http://www.brianngo.net/ig/facebook.xml
Facebook: http://www.brianngo.net/ig/facebook.xml
Jeśli macie jakieś spostrzeżenia lub inne dobre dodatki do gmaila - nie zapomnijcie napisać w komentarzach.
La vie en jaune (Yellow Lab Money Shots)
For a dog who hardly never, ever gets fed by his owner and who has to rely on raiding food put out by the feral cat lady next door to avoid becoming a mere wraith, Milo seems pretty OK.
IDEO labs does multi touch
IDEO multi touch screen. Nothing new about the multi touch screen, but everything new about the integration with an off the shelf TV.
Google Social Search Launches in Labs
Google Social Search is an experimental feature that helps you find relevant public web content from people in your social circle, when you're signed in to your Google Account. For example, search for [ restaurants ], and restaurant reviews by your friends and other contacts may appear more prominently in your results. Join the Social Search experiment at http://www.google.com/experimental
Social Search adds relevant content from your contacts to your results.
When you join the Social Search experiment, Google may bring up results from your friends and other contacts. These special results appear at the bottom of the search results page, in a section labeled "Results from people in your social circle."
via google.com
Today brings news of the experimental launch of Google Social Search within Google Labs. According to Google:
With Social Search, you'll be able to more easily find relevant public content from your social circle, such as the following:
- Websites, blogs, public profiles, and other content linked from your friends' Google profiles.
- Web content, such as status updates, tweets, and reviews, from social services that your friends have listed in their Google profiles.
- Relevant articles from your Google Reader subscriptions.
In the video example above, Google suggests that if, for example, I'm trying to decide whether to get an iPhone or a Bla ckBerry, Social Search can help me by providing relevant content from my friends (or friends of friends). After all, this is typically how we make purchases in real life - relying on the judgments of people we trust.
What potential implications for privacy does this feature have? Does Google retain some knowledge of your social graph after the search has been completed? I'm not sure as of yet, but if anyone knows, please feel free to comment.
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Got the wrong Bob?
"Got the wrong Bob?" is a new Labs feature aimed at sparing you this kind of embarrassment. Turn it on from the Labs tab under Gmail Settings, and based on the groups of people you email most often, Gmail will try to identify when you've accidentally included the wrong person — before it's too late.
Finally there is a new feature to help Gmail user (f.e. employees from a bank) to send stuff (trustful information like customer details) to the wrong person...
Check also the comment a few weeks ago.
New Labs in Google Webmaster Tools
Today Google has announced two new tools a webmaster can access via the new Labs section on Google Webmaster tools.
Fetch as Googlebot
This function let you create a simulate crawl for single pages of your website. Just submit the page and with a few minutes you get a report about what Google gets if the bot has crawled your page.
The interesting thing is that the output show the web page headers as well:
Malware details
This section will show you the pages where malware was detected if Google has found any malicious code on your websites.
Cool last time it took hours to find it all. Anyway it's always better to scan your server for malware.
Need a business partner / CTO / Techie / Super Geek to build beta products @ZaakCo. Tags: #Think, #Idea, #Concept, #Product, #Labs
I have this mostly untested BHAG - big, hairy, audacious goal in business lingo. The BHAG is to ideate, build and launch beta products in order to early exit (by sale or spin off). Key assumptions I am making are:
- In today's day and age, building simple "need fulfilling" products and getting a read on their performance in the market within 6-9 months is not impossible.
- Further, with the right team, this can be done for multiple product ideas one after the other.
- If you are detail oriented and a fast learner you do not need 10 years experience in a particular domain before building a product for it.
From an initial pool of a dozen ideas, I have chosen 3 concepts to start with based on their business case. These products concepts are in the ecommerce, online payments and mobile VAS spaces; 1 is for the Indian market and 2 for global customers. The intent for an early exit is not borne out of greed for $$$, it is so because building products is the most exciting part. And the more diverse products we can build, the better it is for challenging our brains @ZaakCo :) Read Requirements for business partner / CTO / Techie / Super Geek at www.zaakco.com
