January 15th, 2008 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Vivek Gupta, Engineering ManagerIntroducing: shortcut “e.” It’s a new shortcut key that archives email. You might be thinking, “Doesn’t shortcut key ‘y’ archive email too? Why make a new way to archive?” Well, let me explain. I’m a heavy Gmai…
January 14th, 2008 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Alex Kennberg, Google mobile teamWe’ve just released a new look and feel for the mobile version of Gmail on your iPhone. Our goal: make Gmail fit nicely as part of the latest Google on your iPhone experience. This means that we had to make Gm…
January 10th, 2008 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing ManagerI have about eight friends from high school I like to keep in touch with frequently. We all email updates or the occasional funny YouTube video to the group, but every once in a while I’d forget…
December 21st, 2007 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing ManagerWe’ve had a busy year re-coding Gmail and providing you with a slew of new features before this holiday season. Now it’s time for a break. We’ll be back in January, but until then, we’ve assembl…
December 20th, 2007 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
December 18th, 2007 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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 …
December 17th, 2007 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
December 4th, 2007 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
December 3rd, 2007 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
November 28th, 2007 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
November 21st, 2007 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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 …
November 16th, 2007 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
November 9th, 2007 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
November 1st, 2007 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
October 31st, 2007 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…