Posted by Jen “Digital Mom” Grant, Group Product Marketing ManagerWhen I found out I was having twins a year or so ago, I was pretty worried. How could I possibly manage 2 babies, a three-year old, a dog, and a “I like to start companies and not hold d…
Posted by Bill Kee, Gmail TeamJust a quick update to let you know we’ve extended the deadline for entries to our Gmail collaborative video to this Friday, August 17th. We’ve received a bunch of requests to extend the deadline, so we wanted to give pe…
Posted by Jonas Shen, Associate, Consumer OperationsAccording to Wikipedia, the world’s most accomplished hyperpolyglot is Ziad Fazah. This guy can readily communicate in 58 (f-i-f-t-y e-i-g-h-t) languages. Wow.Well Mr. Fazah, while we’re not quite…
Posted by Kevin Systrom, Gmail TeamOn July 16th, we launched a Gmail t-shirt design contest with Threadless.com. Needless to say, we’re psyched to see the quality of work that is pouring in. At last count, we had 192 submissions from designers around t…
Posted by Bill Kee, Associate Product Marketing ManagerSince we posted about our collaborative Gmail video project last week, we’ve gotten a lot of excellent submissions from around the world, and we wanted to share some of them with you here. I could…
Posted by David Murray, Associate Product ManagerMy friend Theresa is always looking to keep better organized. And while she loves the “search, don’t sort” approach that Gmail offers, sometimes she likes to sort. As a neat freak myself, I totally agree…
Posted by Bill Kee, Gmail TeamDo you have mad video-making skills? OK, how about just a video camera and a little bit of spare time to get creative? A few of us on the Gmail team came up with an idea to stitch together a bunch of video clips that all s…
Posted by Brad Taylor, Software EngineerFor all you Gmail users hitting those “Report Spam” and “Not Spam” buttons, thanks a ton! We hear from a lot of users that they love how well Gmail blocks spam, and the only reason it works is because you all rep…
Posted by Kevin Systrom, Gmail TeamJames Surowiecki opens his book The Wisdom of Crowds with the example of Francis Galton, a famous statistician, who asked individuals to guess the weight of an ox. After collecting all the guesses, he came to a startl…
Posted by Shirley Liu, Strategist, Consumer OperationsAs a member of the Gmail support team, I get to read testimonials from people about why they love Gmail. Many of you have lamented the fact that your work, school, and other email accounts aren’t …
Posted by Shirin Oskooi, Google Calendar Associate Product ManagerPeople request new features for Google Calendar all the time. They post to blogs, send email to our support team, call to me on the street, etc. One thing people always ask me about is b…
If you use Google Apps at your business, organization or school, you can now use the Google Talk Gadget on your Start Page to have chats with colleagues or classmates (including group chats). Google Apps lets your organization create Gmail accounts t…
We use Google Talk all the time at work to chat with people on our team. It can sometimes be limiting, though, when you want to include multiple people in the conversation, like you can on an email thread or a conference call. That’s why we’re really…
We focus a lot in this blog on the features we’re adding to Google Talk and the technology behind them. But I wanted to share a bit about our users and what they’re doing with Google Talk.As a member of the Google Talk support team, my day is usually b…
Tired of expressing emotions to your friends with words? Exhausted by the two and sometimes three keys you have to press to enter an emoticon? The Google Talk Gadget has got your back. Today we’re introducing an emoticon menu to put those 
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