by Jason Wilk on October 30, 2008
- We just got word that Google has added SMS capability to chat.
- Google has added it as a test project in Gmail Labs, but it is available for the public to use. To turn it on, go to the Labs tab within Gmail’s settings and enable it.
- The service is easiest if you have your friends’ phone numbers stored in your contacts already. If not, start typing a phone number into the chat search function and send an instant SMS to them.
- The SMS will come in as a 406 number. Google has designated thousands of these 406 area code numbers and if you are a regular user, it will become your dedicated Google SMS number.
- Your friends can reply to the SMS and it will come straight into the chat convo. As usual, if you aren’t logged in anymore, it will show up in your email.
- I wonder if Google was incentivized by any carrier?
Update: We have word from an in house Google worker that says they indeed have contracts with carriers for this and revenue is coming in.
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by Jason Wilk on October 27, 2008
- APC just did an extensive review of Dell’s soon to release Mini 12 Netbook.
- Sports a bigger keyboard, more memory and is slightly pricier ($600 Rumour) than its little brother, the Mini 9.
- Expect it to be available mid November. I’m gettin it.
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by Jason Wilk on October 7, 2008
- Google today anounced that they have launched Mail Goggles, a funny labs project that is designed for drunk people that hop onto their email and send out emails with no inhibition. Not fun to wake up to.
- After a certain time in the night, Google will not let you send an email until you complete the shown set of math problems under a certain time period.
- My friend at Facebook tells me that they are as well working on a protection program, but not quite as harsh. They willl be asking you between certain hours, ‘Are You Sure you Want To Send This Message?’
Which system is more effective aqd should either of them get in the way of the fun that is seeing friends send out drunk messages?
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by Jason Wilk on September 24, 2008
- A new Google Labs project called ‘In Quotes’ allows you to compare quotes of political candidates on various issues.
- Select from a variety of categories: Abortion, Health Care, Iran, etc and easily find what a candidate has said about it in the past.
- Currently available for 20 political figures in the US right now as well as some in Canada, India and UK.
Will this be the Google political plagiairsm detector down the road?
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by David Heyerman on September 10, 2008
- Gmail just announced new functionality.
- The first addition allows users to create fully customizable label colors as opposed to the standard 24 colors previously offers.
- Along with more colors, they released a keyboard shortcut straight to the labels feature.
- Gmail also added the ability to reorder items on left side of the page navigation bar.
- All the new features can be found in your Gmail settings section under “Labs.”
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