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SOCIAL NETWORK
LIKE TO DEVELOP SOCIAL NETWORK
Great post
Chris, Gmail is a Social Media APP, there is no doubt, bcz, Glabs introduce lots of Applications, all API have lots of unique features.
Marx
Gmail collpse threads
In response to an old comment I read (someone who hates gmail collapse threads...)
What?
This is the best invention ever. I love that function because it make our inbox much more "cleaner" and functional --> it is much more easier to find relevant emails, and to easily go back to the original emails.
Also, there are so many other good apps from google... google documents, which I do not to point out, is great. Its like carrying your documents with you at all time, and I love how you can share with other people as well.
Google did a good job so far, and hopefully it is only a beginning and they will come up with more good ideas in the future
Google is great
I personally really enjoy all the features that Google has introduced. Nobody, not even microsoft, has come closed to what Google was able to do, and this, for free!! Not doubt Gmail vs yahoo or hotmail, Google docs (free) vs microsoft office (paying), and the list goes on... I think that Google reign over the internet is here to stay for a long time!
Angiiee
Google - real social network
I think that Google has revolutionised working patterns. Searches, adwords, google base have all changed my view of work. Google chat is great.
Love it.
of course, i am using gmail
of course, i am using gmail thus i have to support..lol
Love gmail, but the ads freak me out
I know that really nothing we send over the internet is completely private, but still...the Google ads that are based on the content of my emails feel Big Brotherish to me.
I love the spam filter and the way the messages are organized, though, so I'm going to happily continue to use the account.
Bigbrotherish...
i agree with the Bigbrotherish effect with the google ads. I have also had allot of my friends and clients warn me and tell me toquit using gmal because of this...but google is king and i will be a faithful google user for years to come!
gmail as social network
Last year there was a big push by Google to an OpensocialAPI.
That is where Gmail will go.
What's missing is an OPensocial enabled collaboration engine.
Chat doesn't hack it. You need multi-person video streams, white boarding, co-browser sharing, presence awareness, mobile platform compatibility and doc sharing.
They have all these elements but some are in vertical app silos and need to move to the API.
They should look at Collabworx out of Syracuse. It drives the DOD and other govt agency secure collaboration because it is encrypted at the audio and object level.
Ah, something Google would not want to happen because, after all, they make their money on indexing real time content in Gmail, knowing what you send and receive. I bet they even search and index attachments where appropriate. Don't agree? Well...
I've tested this theory by sending a one line message to my self with a word doc attached that contained the words car, credit and location. The ads showed in Gmail focused on a local car dealer and bank offering car loans. Go figure....
gmail conversation and threads
I have to admit, I love Gmail. The features I like the most is the possibility of threading conversations and the possibility of applying tags to messages.
NIce and smart search system inside mail folders i very effective too.
I had some less relevant problem with anti-spam, but I think they'll going to fix the soon.
An, yesy, quite easy attachment management.
Avyway, Gmail is actually my main e-mail box.
Tasks & To do lists
Would be awesome if they upgrade their to do list app in Gmail. We need some hardcore integration with Calendar and tasks lists to make gmail more corporate and Socialable
I agree with you
I agree with you
What I love about Gmail
The best part of gmail for me (other than being free!) is the POP account that goes with it. I depend on Outlook for just about everything and if I had to remember to check my Gmail account everyday I'd probably forget to.
email-gmail
I love the application of using emails to send messages to family & friends and I hope it is not susceptible to viruses like hotmail is. I think google should be able to keep the viruses away. I do wish they would allow a small place to set up a web site like outlook express and Aliant has. I had a web presence with them since I've had a computer but the site is on www3 instead of www. like most websites are but I think there are a few in that general area. I wish google would let me use the web spider to make my site more visible. Why do we have High Speed internet. I just can't see what good it is unless we can get providers to let us use the web presence we have on our own systems.
gmail: ... well done
I've been using G-Mail for about 5 years now... well done, ...
Thank you all.
Had 12 accounts before, ... only 2 now with 5 years history: search able, labeled, color-coded and useful... even chat log.
One Happy of many GigaByte Inbox :-)
Bogdan Wrzesinski, Intelligence Inc GodSpeed Publishing
Gmail Signature providing Quality Traffic
my gmail account 3 years old, but i dont know how to get traffic from gmail, since using gmail signature link with my site, still getting good traffic. seems good.
Social features but optional
Hi,
Reading all the comments, I'd like to ad my 2 cents worth:
- I use a few different gmail addresses and I find the Spam filter to be excellent
- I like the social applications they have added, but to be honest I agree with Thunder, when I am checking my emails I don't want to be disturbed by all those additional features. So I have turned them all off.
But I am surprised that Google is not pushing Orkurt harder to face Facebook...
gmail
i like google and gmail, it brings a lot of benefit to me..
Google is a real Social Network
With the constant increasing of web services provided by Google that link with the Gmail account, Google definitely is one of the top player in Social Network arena
Spam filter of Gmail is not GOOD
I like the simple interface of Gmail but on other hand I hate cleaning up long list of spam everyday.
While Hotmail rejects most of spam, Gmail shows them in my inbox.
Email should be restricted to Email. Google should seprate Gmail from all other services.
Spam
I like the interface it's great on Gmail.
It has to much spam on it. They have to clean up people spamming us all the time. Spamming is the worse feature about Gmail and the
spam filters are terrible. I have use them and it does nothing to get rid of spam.
One of my gmail accounts I get over hundreds of spam a day..
Just keep gmail separate from any other thing, no social networking or anything else.
Privacy is important to everyone. I think google is infringing on our privacy everday.
Try GMail AND Reader
I forget where I read this, but Google is also using the Google Reader to quantify site popularity.
They're measuring subscription and click through rates.
So, in terms of Social Networking, they've found a way around the site based models and are looking at sites found in emails and sites that are being read. They're using two apps that already exist in their arnsenal of products.
I'm not sure that the "big brother" approach to the web makes me happy.
Isn't it complicated enough being a webmaster?
Don't go any farther
I do NOT want my life complicated by more and more INTERCONNECTIVITY. I want email to be as private as possible. I want to check my mail without notifying the world that I am there performing this simple function.
I got a gmail account a few years ago because my hotmail and yahoo accounts were loaded with spam. gmail has a very good spam filter and I appreciate it. A few spams do get through from time to time, but, all in all, hooray for gmail.
I do NOT have the time, literally, to follow up on everyone who wants to be my "friend". Social media is driven by marketers who simply want to find a way to contact us for anything and everything. I have things I want to market as well, but I appreciate a relatively high wall around the process of checking my email and maybe a little bit of chatting with a friend or business associate.
I don't want anything else from the experience. NOTHING. That is the VALUE of gmail to me.
New Features
Personally I love all the new features google is introducing these days. They can take over the world as long as they keep providing killer apps like gmail, google docs, etc...
- Kuy
Software Engineer, clinical trials software
Gmail Googlemail for business and personal
i was lucky to get an invite at university to gmail, and use it as my mail email comms tool.
I find that its great to have a standalone mail, for when u change host providers, or services like bt.. u still have a hub to live from.
i think the spam filter is so good that i redirect all mails to my other gmail accounts, this is so handy against using windows type mail, that is combersom and needs a serious overhaul.
the chat side is good, to chat to others, in pvt or in conference, it feels more secure as its embedded in a mail window, i can hide or appear yet still get thier messeges in mails to check later.
however i do think there are some things missing or not so good:
1.ability to float the freinds list from page and back
2.blocking a person like msn but able to unblock just in chat..it just converts to mail.
3.being able to have a alert thread, that allows u too see that any other gmaill email address u have has recieved mail... like a mini 5 line thread that u have added to the list.. this i have never seen, i hate to logg on n off just to check.
4.an internal website counter for ur sites traffic, with weekly and dayly stats.
5. auto reply option.. too all, or selected, and selectable replies, while set to busy, to confirm recieved and in queue etc.
6. advertising... NO-ONE i know even knew it had a reliable IM. i find its best, it uses way less upload download than msn/yahoo, its way more stable, especcially when i use a dongle connection, in low connection areas, msn wont even load, yet with the odd cut off, its stability is amazing.
i would recommend gmail over anythingas far as personal or non open social feilding is concerned.. social adventure networking, no... there is no way i can see of meeting those or reaching out to those u dont know.. myspace and face book u can
but if gmail does, it should incorporate possible searches under interest - business - hobbies options .. rather than random, also a non wanted filter... selectable and business searches within it on a seporate pane... that can intelligently search for businesses that are in your postcode area, then spans outwards like a pebble in water.. hmm.. in the ''Search Ripple'' :)
Sean underworldwebdesign.in melton mowbray leicestershire uk web site and web design and development for all.
favorite Gmail feature
My favorite is the spam filter. It is the best I've seen. I don't lose good mail and I don't get the junk very often.
Google Apps
Love them all.....
My only wish would be if Google would add a data base.
In my opinion ALL social
In my opinion ALL social networks make thesame mistake. The province of the person enterring a new account must agree with his IP address. Thanks to this mistake, scammers crawl the social networks everywhere.
gmail provides good opportunities to spammers
In my opinion they should close gmail.
Since Gmail was opened to everybody and hotmail accounts began being watched more closely, spammers, phishers and the like turned to gmail. Everyday I must spend half and hour sending header info and email body text to the abuse department.
There is no way to get rid of these people: once you've complained and the account closed, they are back with another and another and another gmail account. Very social indeed
Google IS a Social Network Already....
You got the right headline, you just did not get the rest.
You should have interviewed me for this article, let's see if I can bring you up to speed....
There are five major pieces to Google's social features. GFC on blogs, Google Reader, Gmail, Google profiles and Your shared items.
You join a blog thru the Google Friend Connect widget.
When you do this the RSS feed should be added to Google Reader. It definitely is on Blogger blogs.
Then you can add other members as friends by clicking their avatar as they can you.
When you are friended back, you both appear in Gmail contacts and Gchat if you wish. Real email addresses guys.
Your Google Reader can display their shared items and you will show in theirs.
Shared items are hard coded a tags and fully followed.
When others share your RSS feed from Google Reader you get fully followed links on Google servers. This is Google social bookmarking.
So what will Google Friend connect do for you?
I tripled my RSS subscribers in a week, made 200 new contacts that I now have in my Gmail contacts, not some closed loop dependent on Facebook's whims.
I have those same friends sharing my best articles in their Google Readers and I share theirs. All the while we all are creating backlinks to our own articles as well right in Google.
I can email them, chat right from Gchat and get to know what would otherwise be nameless, faceless, social contacts all spamming each other for a few visitors.
Want more, check my site, I will show you how to set this all up.
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