Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing ManagerColored labels make it easier to keep track of emails, and by using them with filters, I realized they can provide an almost entirely new way of visualizing my inbox based on context rather than…
Posted by Miriam Schneider, Associate Product Marketing ManagerA few days after inviting you to share your Gmail stories, we’re already impressed with the results. Among many others, so far we’ve heard from:A father who uses Gmail as a digital journal …
Posted by Anatol Pomazau, Software EngineerGmail shortcuts can save you a lot time, and recently we’ve added even more. But with so many shortcuts it can be a challenge to remember them all. For example, did you know that “s” applies a star, “!” report…
Posted by Michael Davidson, Software EngineerI was pretty excited when we launched chat integration in Gmail. Finally I could chat and email in one place–but I couldn’t chat with friends using other instant messaging services.From the beginning, Googl…
Posted by Dave Cohen, Software EngineerBack in the Paleolithic Era, the world was a very different kind of place. People were hunter-gatherers, lived in caves, and kept all their email in folders*. You can’t really blame them. Between tracking woolly m…
Posted by Sergey Solyanik, Software EngineerThe new Gmail Seattle team is happy to announce two additions to Gmail’s built-in chat capabilities: group chat and enhanced emoticons.To start a group chat, click “Group chat” from the “Options” menu when ch…
Posted by Jen “Digital Mom” Grant, Group Product Marketing ManagerEvery once in a while my husband and I wonder why we don’t do more “cultural” things with the kids, especially around the holidays. We’re so busy and we just don’t have the time to keep …
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing ManagerWhen we began rolling out a new Gmail code architecture a few weeks ago, we also launched some new features to help improve the speed and convenience of managing email. I’ve been using several o…
Posted by Kevin Systrom, Associate Product Marketing ManagerCongratulations to Robert Gould, the winner of our Threadless t-shirt competition. With much deliberation, we picked his design out of 420 submitted designs to win a pretty sweet prize package…
Posted by David Murray, Associate Product ManagerLast week we announced we were providing you with free IMAP access and said we would roll out the feature over time as fast as we could. I’m happy to say that all Gmail users can now enable IMAP and sync…
Posted by Todd Jackson, Gmail Product ManagerI got lucky in April 2004, when Gmail had just launched, and I snagged one of the first invitations (I didn’t work at Google at the time, but had a few friends who did). One of the first things I noticed was…
Posted by Dan Pupius, Gmail engineerWhen Gmail launched in 2004, the web was a very different place: people’s expectations were different, browser capabilities were less advanced, and certain terms that are now commonplace on software engineer résumé…
Posted by David Murray, Associate Product ManagerThere are two online petitions I’ve signed in my life. One was for a “Xena: Warrior Princess” movie. The other, which I signed a few months before starting at Google, was for Gmail IMAP. As some of you k…
Posted by Rob Siemborski, Gmail EngineerWhen people ask me about my job, one of the common questions I get is, “Where does Gmail put all that mail?” I generally answer by pointing them to a web site like this one. While that’s not exactly how it works…