Gmail News & Articles

It is increasingly common to see updates on social sites such as Facebook and Twitter come from people using their mobile devices. Vufone is a new service from NewACT that makes accessing and managing messages, photos and video across a range of social sites a one-stop task.

Chances are you are one of the 100 million users of Gmail. Chances are you store stuff on there because you can get to it no matter what machine you are accessing the web with. Novel chapters, presentation notes, report data, etc.

But you’re on a plane, or in a car, or doing the great search for the American Dream via Greyhound and you don’t have web access. Or the bandwidth you can access is unreliable. Spotty. Intermittent. Oh the humanity!

In these days nearly every tech company is seeking the holy grail of new services, software, SaaS options or enterprise 2.0 solutions. The organizations want to get that edge they may need to hold their ground.

However, it seems a little odd that anyone would think that another webmail client is really what we need. MySpace seems to think this is the case, and has a stealth webmail client in the works as their newest 1-2 punch.

Social Media moves so fast, its hard to keep up. Here’s the week’s top stories, in scan-friendly format.

This Week:

• Embedded GMail Video is Deeper than you Think
• Reference Extract: Google, Except by Smart People
• Apple Building a Search Engine?
• Twingr— Make Your Own Twitter
• 30 Different Uses for RSS
  
  

Embedded GMail Video is Deeper than you Think

You may or may not have noticed a new feature in your GMail account: embedded video chat. It launched a couple of days ago to high acclaim. (Mashable came up with the best summation, calling it the “anti-Skype”).

It’s primarily noteworthy because there’s hardly any reason to leave GMail anymore for your communication needs. IM, email, and now video/audio can now all be accessed from the GMail interface. Which is quite remarkable, when you think that all this is being done from the browser. Imagine if we’d frozen Scoble a couple of years ago and thawed him out this week to see this— he’d fall over backwards. (Which would give us a good opportunity to throw him back into the deep-freeze for another decade or three.)

iGoogle just recently got even cooler by putting its new canvas view into effect for U.S. users.

With new features and details like the tab display as a left-hand column rather than a menu up top, and each gadget having its own individual page for expanded viewing, iGoogle aims to make it possible for users to get all of their ritualistic Web practices taken care of without leaving the comfort of their own homepage.

Zoho, a Web-hosted Microsoft Office and Google competitor, has announced offline support for their Zoho Mail product. Zoho Mail joins Zoho Writer — the company’s word processing product — in using (ironically enough) Google Gears for offline support and access.

By comparison, Google has yet to implement any type of offline access to their Web-hosted email product, Gmail. Zoho, in choosing to utilize Google’s own offline-enabling engine, beat the search giant to the punch in an effort to remain competitive in the space.

So maybe it’s not the end of Microsoft Outlook, but the news coming from Australia this week may be a sign of the changing times for the mighty Marketing machine. Google’s Gmail application has kicked Outlook out of the schools by Australia’s education sector. The New South Wales Department of Education has announced that Gmail will replace Outlook as the email application for over 1.3 million students.

A big win for Google, a big loss for Microsoft.

To those of you nearing the limit of your 2.82 GB of Google storage, fear not! Google is offering a way to purchase more storage space that can be shared between Gmail and Picasa Web Albums.