Do you have a blog, online profile, or some other personal web page? Would you like to communicate more with your visitors? Today we’re launching a new Google Talk feature that lets visitors to your web site chat with you. We call it “chatback” because…
It goes without saying that instant messaging has become integral to communicating in the workplace and at school. Chat helps us to share ideas instantaneously with co-workers and classmates. That’s why Google Talk has always been a part of Google App…
OK, I cheated. I don’t really speak Chinese. But I know a bot that does, and we’re releasing it today together with number of other translation bots. For those not familiar with bots, a (ro)bot is a piece of software that acts as a chat contact and pro…
Finding a good Google Talk picture can be a real chore. It’s hard enough to find a photo of yourself where you’re smiling and looking intelligent, without all the additional hassle of cropping, exporting, and manually uploading your picture. So I devot…
Today, we added support for 20 more languages to the web-based Google Talk Gadget. The new languages are: Chinese(Simplified), Chinese(Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English(UK), Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Po…
Posted by Joanne McKinley, Gmail mobile teamAccessing Gmail on my phone has become indispensable to me. So often, I need to do things like search through my archive to find the name of that coffee shop where I’m going to meet a friend, or to send a qui…
Posted by Nick Baum, Associate Product ManagerYou may have noticed that Google Reader recently parted ways with Google Labs. If you’re not familiar with Reader, it’s Google’s feed aggregator. Think of it as your inbox for the web: just subscribe to the…
Posted by Arielle Reinstein, Product Marketing ManagerJust like you, I get a lot of email. Much of it requires my reply, some is simply FYI, and some is the result of overactive mailing lists, like the one for Google’s San Francisco commuters. I take t…
Posted by Shirin Oskooi, Associate Product ManagerWe had a couple of updates to share this week from the Google Docs and Google Calendar teams. First, as you may have heard, the Docs team launched the ability to create and share presentations to go wit…
I gave a presentation about the Google Talk Service a while ago at the Google Scalability Conference hosted by Googlers in Seattle. You can watch the video below.Here is the abstract:Since launching Google Talk in the summer of 2005, we have integra…
Posted by Jen “Digital Mom” Grant, Group Product Marketing ManagerSo here’s my next tip in the series I started a few weeks ago:I laugh when I remember what I was like as a new mom. I was determined to be perfect: feeding only homemade food that I blen…
Posted by Bill Kee, Associate Product Marketing ManagerHere are five more entries in my list of little-known features begun last week:5. Smart links on the rightWhen you get an email that references an address, look to the right and you’ll probably see…
Posted by Kevn Systrm, Gmail TeamRecently, the Internet has been abuzz over a new term: ‘bacn’ – with the requisite missing vowel – which is pronounced, you guessed it, “bacon.” Wikipedia defines it as: “electronic messages which have been subscribed…
Posted by Bill Kee, Associate Product Marketing ManagerGmail has a bunch of lesser-known feature that can end up being very useful once you get to know them. I’ve put together a list of my top 10 favorite features that you may or may not be familiar w…
Posted by Arielle Reinstein, Product Marketing ManagerSeveral weeks back, we posted a video to YouTube giving a behind-the-scenes look at how Gmail messages “really” travels around the world. We then invited you to submit your own clips to continue the…