"Did you mean" suggestions for potentially incorrect recipients. For Apps users, hopefully no more accidentally sending the financial spreadsheet outside the company.
- Keith Coleman
"Searching through individual messages for little unsubscribe links is too big a pain —you should be able to unsubscribe with a single click. Now, when you report spam on a legitimate newsletter or mailing list, we'll help you unsubscribe. Clicking "Unsubscribe" will automatically send a request back to the sender so they'll stop emailing you."
- Keith Coleman
Ah, Google added an update to their post: "Update (1:50pm): If you want to unsubscribe without reporting the message as spam, click "show details" in the top-right corner of the message, then click "Unsubscribe from this sender.""
- Philipp Lenssen
"Google Calendar now has its own Labs. Long one of the most popular features of Gmail, at least among the early adopter crowd, Labs is the tab in Settings where users can find and turn on experimental new features. Google Calendar Labs is launching with six features."
- Keith Coleman
"We realize that after five years, this leaves some of you wrestling with some tough questions. How will you ever get used to using Gmail without that familiar grey "BETA" text greeting you when you log in everyday? What example will you cite the next time you make an internet joke about perpetual betas? Don't despair... Just go to Settings, click on Labs, turn on "Back to Beta," and it'll be like Gmail never left beta at all."
- Keith Coleman
"But in Gmail, labels were stuck in a box below Chat — almost like we were telling people, "you don't want to use these." In testing, we discovered that it worked best to remove the terminology altogether and just place custom labels right under the system labels (e.g. "Inbox")"
- Keith Coleman
From the description: "It's brand new and never been opened. My boss bought it right before I moved the whole company over to Google Apps."
- Keith Coleman
Turn this Lab on then try sending this to yourself: "Google brise la barrière de la langue avec la traduction automatique d’email
Aujourd’hui Google expérimente Google Translate™ dans Gmail, le service d’email gratuit de Google, permettant la traduction automatique d’emails dans 41 langues.
Baptisée « Traduction du message » cette fonctionnalité apparaitra dans Gmail Labs et sera disponible pour les utilisateurs du monde entier.
Grâce à ce nouvel outil, les utilisateurs de Gmail peuvent converser dans plusieurs langues, et peuvent lire les messages dans la langue qui leur convient le plus. Les messages arriveront donc automatiquement traduits dans la langue choisie.
La "Traduction du Message" permet aussi de faciliter les échanges lors de réservations à l’étranger. Cet outil rend les communications plus simples et efficaces, dans la lignée du service de messagerie Gmail.
« Nous voulions offrir aux utilisateurs de Gmail un moyen d’interagir au delà de la plus délicate des barrières de communication : le langage.» explique Christian Miccio.
Bien que Google Translate soit disponible pour tous sur Internet, la traduction automatique d’email est uniquement disponible pour les utilisateurs de Gmail. Pour créer un compte Gmail, rendez vous sur mail.google.com. Pour activer la Traduction du Message dans Gmail, allez sur l’onglet Labs, figurant sur la page paramètres."
- Keith Coleman
"Have you ever realized you mistakenly left someone important out of an email, or just spent too much time trying to decide who from your long list of contacts to include? Well, some of us on the Gmail team feel your pain, so we wrote a new Gmail Labs feature called "Suggest more recipients.""
- Keith Coleman
Have features been graduating out of labs? I'm looking forward to seeing some of the more helpful, less controversial features graduating to the beta version. (Heh. Graduating to beta...)
- Kevin Fox
"Today we're introducing a major revision to Gmail for mobile that takes advantage of the latest browser technology available on iPhone and Android devices. We've updated the user interface, made it faster to open messages, allowed for batch actions (like archiving multiple messages at once), and added some basic offline support"
- Keith Coleman
"Our friends over at Google just launched a pretty nifty Gmail feature where an email with a Yelp link (after opt-in) automatically pulls in the businesses star rating, review count, and other useful info from our site."
- Keith Coleman
"Give them a try and send us your thoughts. If you work on a product that would lend itself to a great preview in Gmail, we'd love to hear from you too."
- Keith Coleman
Yay. More validation that "see media right in the message" is something people want.
- Bruce Lewis
One of my favorite changes. When you read a conversation and mark as unread, it only marks as unread the messages that were unread when you opened it.
- Keith Coleman
Interested to hear what people think about this, and if it's widely preferred to the default. A benefit of the default order is that it's easy to tell the difference between a Gmail and an Apps account, but it comes with the tradeoffs Fedor mentions...
- Keith Coleman
1. I want a count of the # of unread messages that are above the first read message. 2. My tabs are too small, I want the number before "Inbox".
- Jim Norris
I can confirm that like many of the Labs, Labs itself was written as a 20% project and wasn't actually what I would call "designed." So, naturally, the UI is the easiest possible thing to code (a list). This also explains the erratic ordering of Labs -- it's entirely up to where you insert your Lab into the array.
- Keith Coleman
Labels++. I have become dependent on the "l" (lowercase L) keyboard shortcut, and on the "g-l" (go to label) shortcut from the "Go to label" Labs feature.
- Keith Coleman
I have been a post-it note user for years, and Tasks on the iPhone finally got me to switch. It has come in really handy for shopping lists and notes to myself about things I need to discuss with people when I see them.
- Keith Coleman