August 28th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
August 21st, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
August 14th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
August 14th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
August 13th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
August 3rd, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
July 27th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
July 24th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
July 19th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
July 16th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
July 12th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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 …
July 9th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
July 3rd, 2007 | by A Googler | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Bill Kee, Associate Product Marketing ManagerWhen we launched Gmail, we set out to change the way email works. We designed it so you should never have to delete mail and always be able to find the message you want. Since then, we’ve added thi…