February 9th, 2010 by Mayank Agarwal

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Gmail coming with social media features?

Gmail coming with social media features?

This could be some thing big. Google is believed to be working on some killer social feature for GMail. This new feature could be out as early as this week end. The basic use of this feature will be to make it easy for users to share real time updates/information with their friends. WSJ reported a while back also said

“Currently, Gmail has a chat bar that can display a short “away message” for each user’s contacts. But the new interface will have an area that users can click through to see updates from more friends in a stream—a format popularized by Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc., these people said”

Apart from this Google will also integrate its social media channels like YouTube, Picasa etc with this. This new service “will allow users to allow Gmail users to view a stream of status updates from people they choose to connect with.”

As, of now nothing much is know apart from this. But if implemented properly this could be a game changer for a simple reason that loads of people still use GMail as regularly as Twitter or Facebook. This also shows the fact that Google is not banking heavily on Wave which initially was supposed to Google’s social answer to Facebook and Twitter. Wait and watch.

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30 Responses to “Google To Launch Twitter Like Features In GMail by This Week End?”


  1. ksantani
    (Twitter: @ ksantani )

    1 month ago

    yeah, google is again trying its luck in social networking… my fingers are crossed…!

    Reply

  2. SM

    1 month ago

    Intresting information. Google take over the world :)

    Reply

  3. jeff

    1 month ago

    Amazing, I am using it now. This feature is named buzz, seems yahoo has such a brand already for something like digg

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    • Mayank Agarwal
      (Twitter: @ mayank25may )

      1 month ago

      Yeah Jeff, buzz looks really amazing… trying my hands on it. Right, Yahoo has a digg like aggregator named Buzz.

      Reply

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  1. Mayank Agarwal Says:

    RT @TechDusts: Google To Launch Twitter Like Features In GMail by This Week End? http://bit.ly/bC2jCA by @mayank25may

  2. Mayank Agarwal Says:

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  3. Mehdi Lamloum Says:

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  4. Haythem Says:

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  5. Bob MacNeal Says:

    Seems Google is cooking up some killer, Twitter-like ,social feature for GMail http://bit.ly/bnapx8

  6. Ahmed Ali Says:

    http://techdusts.com/2010/02/09/google-to-launch-twitter-like-features-in-gmail-by-this-week-end/ Gmail to build killer feature?

  7. ilana eberson Says:

    RT @TechDusts: This is HUGE : Google's New Twitter and Facebook Killer inside Gmail http://bit.ly/c20ZjB

  8. Yklys S Rodrigues Says:

    RT @IndianGuru: Twitter killer in GMail this weekend? http://ow.ly/15gtT

  9. Sami Ben Romdhane Says:

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  10. TechDusts Says:

    This is HUGE : Google's New Twitter and Facebook Killer inside Gmail http://bit.ly/c20ZjB

  11. Nathan Smack Says:

    RT @BobMacNeal: Seems Google is cooking up some killer, Twitter-like ,social feature for GMail http://bit.ly/bnapx8

  12. Sweta Patel Says:

    Google To Launch Twitter Like Features In GMail by This Week End? http://bit.ly/bC2jCA

  13. Satish Talim Says:

    Twitter killer in GMail this weekend? http://ow.ly/15gtT

  14. Jay Karia Says:

    RT: @TechDusts: This is HUGE : Google's New Twitter and Facebook Killer inside Gmail http://bit.ly/c20ZjB

  15. Aditi Mohan Says:

    RT @kariajay: RT: @TechDusts: This is HUGE : Google's New Twitter and Facebook Killer inside Gmail http://bit.ly/c20ZjB

  16. Sai Ram Says:

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  17. Arvind Nigam Says:

    http://ow.ly/15gtT Gmail vs. Twitter which has higher resiliency? :-)

  18. Krishna Santani Says:

    RT @TechDusts: Google To Launch Twitter Like Features In GMail by This Week End? http://bit.ly/bC2jCA by @mayank25may

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  20. Supergilbys Says:

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  21. Mayank Agarwal Says:

    RT @TechDusts: We will be real time blogging the Google event today in which Google will launch Twitter and Facebook Killer in Gmail. http://bit.ly/bC2jCA

  22. Krishna Santani Says:

    RT @TechDusts We will be real time blogging the Google event today in which it will launch Twitter and Facebook Killer. http://bit.ly/bC2jCA

  23. Jose Gulisano Says:

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  24. TechDusts Says:

    We will be real time blogging the Google event today in which Google will launch Twitter and Facebook Killer in Gmail. http://bit.ly/bC2jCA

  25. Fluendo Says:

    Google entering social media http://bit.ly/c20ZjB via @AddToAny

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