Changing colors
Google has come up with the most elegant and the most obvious solutions to combine Google Mail with Google Chat. Read more about it here. After read about this feature, it looked so simple and so obvious !!! as if it was always there staring right in your face and somebody just had to do it. Great innovations are usually simple :)
Yahoo did have this, but wasnt very user friendly, with their Java based client. What I liked even more in Google, was that they provided a backup of the chats to store straight away into your mailbox. Thats something really cool, since we anyway use the same login creds for both mail and chats. I even tried it out today, and the format in which the chats are stored is really sleek and very good.
Gnome, with Nat's dashboard idea, had all the ingredients for this feature, but i guess the Gnome platform was in itself a limitation for the usefulness of this idea. Gnome and other desktops now a days have the presence notification of your contacts in built with various applications combining to give you a very knowledgable use of them. Something like, your mail app, integrates with the presence notification app, and your chat app, and when you find your buddy online, you could directly ping him on chat, or going a step forward you can as well, have a video conference with him !! By providing the "presence" notification of your chat buddies in your browser [ mail ], Google makes it very convenient and user friendly, and obviously crossplatform. You are sending a mail to a person, and you find him online, then better chat, rather than mail him :).
Recently, I joined my PU college mailing list on yahoo, and was reading the old mails there. These guys were all in different geographical locations, and were sending mails to the mailing list. Just by seeing their mails being replied while they were still logged on to the net, they started sending one liner mails asking ... "hey, you seem to be online, login to messenger, lets chat". I guess, we will no longer see such mails anymore with this new feature from Google :)
Another story coming up from Google, is that, they are planning to have people chat with eachother, irrespective of the service provider they are logged in to. Something like, while i am on Google Chat, i could talk to another of my friend who is logged into Yahoo chat. This would definately take a lot of time to happen i guess, but the idea is very good. This they say is the same way how the telephone industry has evolved. No matter, which telephone service provider gives you the phone, you can always call up your friend.
Yahoo did have this, but wasnt very user friendly, with their Java based client. What I liked even more in Google, was that they provided a backup of the chats to store straight away into your mailbox. Thats something really cool, since we anyway use the same login creds for both mail and chats. I even tried it out today, and the format in which the chats are stored is really sleek and very good.
Gnome, with Nat's dashboard idea, had all the ingredients for this feature, but i guess the Gnome platform was in itself a limitation for the usefulness of this idea. Gnome and other desktops now a days have the presence notification of your contacts in built with various applications combining to give you a very knowledgable use of them. Something like, your mail app, integrates with the presence notification app, and your chat app, and when you find your buddy online, you could directly ping him on chat, or going a step forward you can as well, have a video conference with him !! By providing the "presence" notification of your chat buddies in your browser [ mail ], Google makes it very convenient and user friendly, and obviously crossplatform. You are sending a mail to a person, and you find him online, then better chat, rather than mail him :).
Recently, I joined my PU college mailing list on yahoo, and was reading the old mails there. These guys were all in different geographical locations, and were sending mails to the mailing list. Just by seeing their mails being replied while they were still logged on to the net, they started sending one liner mails asking ... "hey, you seem to be online, login to messenger, lets chat". I guess, we will no longer see such mails anymore with this new feature from Google :)
Another story coming up from Google, is that, they are planning to have people chat with eachother, irrespective of the service provider they are logged in to. Something like, while i am on Google Chat, i could talk to another of my friend who is logged into Yahoo chat. This would definately take a lot of time to happen i guess, but the idea is very good. This they say is the same way how the telephone industry has evolved. No matter, which telephone service provider gives you the phone, you can always call up your friend.
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