Gmail Priority Inbox
I was seeing a small link in red called " New Priority Inbox beta" from yesterday. Today I clicked it... it said, Failed to activate Priority Inbox. After couple of tries it got activated. So, What is it ?? This new feature if it works really as advertised will be really an awesome feature for most of us. Simply to put up, it just prioritizes the mails for us. But how ? Just it does it by watching our read/sent mails and also it gives us an option to mark a mail as Important/ Unimportant. And also there is a new mailbox view which categorize the mails as : - Important and Unread or
- Starred or
- Everything Else
I have subscribed to lot of newsletters starting from Techrepublic to DotNetSlackers and etc. And now Im not reading all of them or at-least not all the issues. So the quantity of the mail, then mails from Dell, HP, etc are just filling my mailbox. I dont want to unsubscribe those and also I dont want to label and archive them. I want it in my inbox. And also, sometimes, there is a possibility of missing a mail from some person due to the number of these kind of mails. So, the better way is prioritizing it. Thats what its all about !!
New Priority Inbox didnt read my old mails and its not showing any proper Important and Unread messages. May be it need sometime to loop through mails etc.. Hope it works as expected.
Multiple Inboxes for GMail
Last month Gmail Team announced a new GMail Lab feature called Multiple Inboxes. I really thought its about having Multiple Inboxes. Its not so. It wont allow you to see multiple Inboxes at the sametime. Its just a Multi-view or Multi-pane view of messages in some order or pattern. ie., You can create a view and define that to display all the mails labeled something, or from some account etc.
I have five accounts in Gmail (my old Gmail Id, other 3 ids for three different reasons created in the Google Apps - Kiruthik.com account). All the four are forwarded to the id mail-at-kiruthik.com. So mails from those account would reach this mail@kiruthik inbox.
Movies in your City from Google
After Vasanth, its my time to get amused by Google.
Searched for Movies in Madras, it just showed me. Even for Tiruppur, Salem, Madurai... the list goes on.
Gmail s’ Last Account activity
Saw a link called "Details” in the bottom of the Gmail Page. - Last account activity As usual Google into their Ad business in a different way.......
Clicking the Details link next to the Last account activity line at the bottom of any Gmail page shows information about recent activity in your mail.
Recent activity includes any times that your mail was accessed, using a regular web browser, through a POP client, from a mobile device, etc. We'll list the IP address from which the access was made, as well as the time and date.
Its shows the last 5 sessions
Google into their Ad business
How this is linked to their buisness? Lets see that in the next post!!!
Microsoft's Offer to Yahoo
Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for $44.6bn in cash and/or shares. "We dont have any other option" must be the answer from Bill Gates in Microsoft's Board of Directors meeting. They are offering nearly 62% more from Yahoo 's Thursday(31-Jan-2008) closing price. Just see the graph below plotted against Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Dow Jones, Nasdaq for the past 5 years.
We can very easily say that Googles' stock has increased very high than its rival(s).
Below, is the Microsoft’s letter to the board of directors at Yahoo, proposing to buy the company.
But its something similar to HP-Compaq Vs Dell - Though its not so equal in any means though. But the deal might workout like that.
Another April Product from Google - TISP
Google came up with another new, product/service this April 1st. Tisp, free Home Wi-Fi (i think its Toilet ISP) is ready now..
Google Calendar Beta
Google released AJAX based Web Application, Google Calendar.
Few Snapshots of Google Calendar are here :
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Have to catch the train, so I will be posting more about Google Calendar later.
Few days before, Google announced its Google Talk integration with Gmail, and now its ready to use. This is a nice idea of integrating Gmail & Google Talk called Chat. Also, it will be good in places like office where messengers are not allowed. Nice UI as well.
New column like Quick Contacts showing friends who are online in Google Talk
When we click on the contacts, it will open a small frame to start conversation. Or, if you move the mouse over it, it will just open that contacts' detail.
A small window like frame with two buttons in the bottom
Go off the record will not save the conversation, and I think its not necessary to say about Block senthil <user>. The pop-out is to make the window a new page, without disturbing the current one.
The new message is placed with a Orange color head.
Also, when we opt to save the history it is getting saved immediately. You can see it there in the above image.
Minimized Chat Window within the Gmail Page
We can minimize the chat window like what we can do in Meebo, e-messenger.net the web based messenger alternatives.
Cute, light weight smiles and small icons.
We can expect both MSN & Yahoo 's new webmail based in AJAX to have the similar feature.
Now search giant Google offers a new service in Gmail, which will help us to view the Chat(text) conversations inside Gmail.
The chat logs can be viewed & searched, like emails and also it can be sent as email. Even we can move the message to Inbox, we can add a star etc. This new feature of google has to be enabled to before use.
So I enabled it few hours before and tried to archive it. Its cool 
In my Google Talk (gmail) account, Im connected to very few people, & hence im not using it often. But I can say that its very simple & low resource hungry application when we compare it with Yahoo Messenger & Hotmail.
I used to save all the Chat conversation in Yahoo. The main difference between both is : In google, the chat conversations are stored in Gmail Account, and in Yahoo it is stored in the PC where you are using the Messenger. So, we have to enable archiving in Yahoo each time we re-install the messenger / we loggin in different machine. Also in Yahoo its is saved in Profiles folder in Yahoo installed directory with a .dat extension and its encrypted. The best about Yahoo is you can send offline message, but not in Google.
Update : Now Google Talk supports Offline messaging, which is also saved in the Gmail.
People who have access to their raw logs can use Awstats, Webtrends or Webalizer etc, to get a better view of their websites visitors statistics. Hopefully who don't have access to the logs, may use the free service from Stat Counter, Shiny Stats etc., But this is something interesting from Google, thats Google Analytics, as usual a free service. So this can be a very good alternative,mainly for people, who blog in blogspot, or Live journal.
About Google Analytics, the installation is very simple & its just the 5 lines of code to add in your page. I have installed it now, may be tomorrow morning (12 hours later), I hope to get access to my reports!!! The reports are grouped for three types of people : Executives, Webmasters and Marketing Officials.
Im waiting for the report. Soon, I will update this with the snopshots.
Update : Nothing special happened in Google's Analytics report. I don't know how long I have to wait. Its like, they have registered the domain Google-Analytics.com more than 4 months back 
After a month, MSN announced its Virtual Earth, the search engine giant released its own version called, Google Earth ( beta ), which is a advancement of Google 's Mapping (KEYHOLE), which allow users to search for a location to get an aerial view of that place.
Like MSN Virtual Earth, Google also offers many features like satellite view,..... It lists Banks/ATMs, Schools, Movie Rentals, Hospitals, Churches, Restaurant, Airports etc., Its a 100% GIS Application, but the images will not be a map, but it will be of Aerial & 3D view. I clicked, Hard Times, a movie rental Shoppe, and it showed the address.
Like we bookmark web pages in a browser, we can also bookmark a place. And if you search for a address, it will find the area exactly, and shows the image with the Latitude & Longitude points. Like GIS applications, they split the area with the same Layer concept. For e.g.., I selected Shopping centers in the layer, in few seconds, it showed many shopping centers with a $ symbol. Likewise I tried lodging & banks.
It comes in 4 editions, but as of now, the free one is not available for download. And if you are that much interested, then go for Google Earth Pro Trial, which is available for download.
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