Gmail To Offer Friend Updates?

Hope that’s a way to competely turn the updates off.. that Gtalk box is already too much disturbing..

>Hope that’s a way to completely turn the updates off..
Hope there’s a way to completely turn the updates off..

Given all the problems with the Gmail address book, this could get quite spammy…

Heck… why not… seems like a very natural progression for Google.

Jon

What would be even better then new gMail features is if they rolled those features over to the gMail for your domain side. (Google Apps)

The two products are managed separately for some reason and oddly enough Google rolls out new features to paying customers last - if at all.

Are you kidding me? Google spamming? No way ! ( snicker)

Google has acquired Jaiku, and there is still no word about Jaiku’s future, GMail updates may be something like Googlised Jaiku.

I’ll switch to another service as soon as someone tries to be my friend via gmail.

@PRoales
there’s a new check box in the domainsettings for Google Apps that makes this happen (-Turn on new application features to my domain before they are rolled out to all Google Apps customers).

http://www.google.com/support/.....&hl=en

I read somewhere that while browsing any site don’t open your gmail account, might be the reason it gather all the information and your activities.

Interactive Times Square Sign Will Show Americans’ Messages of Thanks to the Troops
“Operation New Year’s Eve” Text Messaging Campaign Launches This Weekend 12/29/07 – 01/01/08

NEW YORK -Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), the nation’s first and largest nonpartisan organization for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is taking part in “Operation New Year’s Eve,” an exciting holiday campaign that lets Americans send text messages in support of U.S. troops to a sign in Times Square.

Supporters can send text messages to 94444 (keyword ‘care’ space ‘then your message’). All messages will be collected by “Operation New Year’s Eve” and broadcast on a digital LED screen at the top of 4 Times Square, the tallest building in New York’s Times Square.

More than a million people are expected to gather in Times Square for the News Year’s Eve celebration, with an additional 50 million Americans watching at home. The messages will be broadcast worldwide via a live video stream at http://www.operationnewyearseve.org or http://www.textthanks.org.

Sign Lab Media and The Durst Organization are proudly sponsoring “Operation New Year’s Eve,” in association with Fountainhead.com, who designed and delivered the technology for the event. $.99 will be charged to users’ phones for each text message sent. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA).

“Operation New Year’s Eve’ provides Americans with a fantastic way to show support for U.S. service members serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s critical that amidst all the celebration, we stop to think about the men and women who are away from their families and in harm’s way,” said Paul Rieckhoff, IAVA Executive Director. “We are grateful to The Durst Organization, Sign Lab Media and Fountainhead.com for sponsoring such an innovative campaign to help Americans say thank you.”

Rob MacMillan, CEO of Sign Lab Media, is producing this historic event. A former Reservist, he intends to draw upon the Internet and social networks to lead the charge. “This is a profoundly simple, yet powerful way for all Americans to connect with the men and women serving overseas.”
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) is the nation’s first and largest group for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A non-profit and nonpartisan organization, IAVA represents more than 70,000 veteran members and civilian supporters in all 50 states. For more information, please contact : Bill Nestel, Sign Lab Media (514) 543-6929 or zumabill@aol.com.

@ #8: and I thought I was the ultimate anti-social hermit!

Jon

Good bye FriendFeed

For floks who want to get a sense of where this whole thing is heading, I think it’s useful to look back at an interview Robert Scoble did of Joseph Smarr and me, way back in August: http://therealmccrea.wordpress.....w-of-2008/

Sounds like Spokeo and Friendfeed to me.

Well i love to use gmail…and that is a good news for me

What took them so long ? Its just a natural progression of the service. Thought they would have done this years ago.

http://www.Xenbet.com

By the way,when do u think Yahoo is gonna start something of this sort???

I would like to see some more changes in Yahoo rather than Gmail!!

Call me curmudgeonly, but I just want email from Gmail. If I want social networking, I’ll join a social network. But I really don’t want inane “updates” from “friends” when I’m reading and composing business mail. Nor do I want people on my contact list to receive rubbishy “updates” from me. Is it me who’s so old fashioned? If I want to update someone on what I’m doing, I’ll email them or pick up the telephone. If Gmail foists this on me with no way to completely disable the sending and receiving of updates, I’ll switch services, probably to my own domain with paid email hosting.

Is there really a user demand to have sites broadcast every little move they are making? This just seems like nonsense.

@Andy

Are you serious? You are using Gmail to read and compose BUSINESS mail? Nottin against Google, but Google’s TOS says that if they want they can delete every account without a notice. I wouldn’t trust a FREE mail company. For business mail i prefer using a business provider OR i’d set up a server on my own…

This stuff has been imminent for some time now. Yahoo better have something up their sleeves if they’re going to keep up.

@Dale
Are you serious? Should you really be commenting here with such ignorance? Google provides corporate accounts (through Capgemini, in some cases) for $50/seat and so it is suitable for business. Especially alongside PGP and use of an email client. Go back to class.

I hope it’s opt-in, lest they pull a Facebook.