Back in the Paleolithic Era, the world was a very different kind of place. People were hunter-gatherers, lived in caves, and kept all their email in folders*. You can't really blame them. Between tracking woolly mammoths, fashioning crude stone tools, and auditioning for commercials, having a highly tuned system for organizing email wasn't their highest priority.
But people changed. We moved out of caves and into skyscrapers. We hunt for bargains at the corner grocery. And we play video games simulating ourselves playing video games.
Today, we're happy to announce the next evolution of labels: the colored label. Until now the label has been a little inconspicuous creature, subtly suggesting categorical associations in its simple green coat. Oh, we've seen the colored label here and there, its precursors surfacing in various experiments and Greasemonkey scripts; but the label has never before been so brazen, so bold. How will it use its new colors? Will it disguise itself with the chameleon's camouflage or clamor for attention with the monarch butterfly's vivid contrast?
News source: Official Gmail Blog
Link: Back Page News Discussion
But people changed. We moved out of caves and into skyscrapers. We hunt for bargains at the corner grocery. And we play video games simulating ourselves playing video games.
Today, we're happy to announce the next evolution of labels: the colored label. Until now the label has been a little inconspicuous creature, subtly suggesting categorical associations in its simple green coat. Oh, we've seen the colored label here and there, its precursors surfacing in various experiments and Greasemonkey scripts; but the label has never before been so brazen, so bold. How will it use its new colors? Will it disguise itself with the chameleon's camouflage or clamor for attention with the monarch butterfly's vivid contrast?
News source: Official Gmail Blog Link: Back Page News Discussion
I also noticed for the first time yesterday that the Chat now works in Safari. It may have been working for awhile now, I just never knew it.
EDIT - And I see that although Chat now works in Safari, these colored labels do not. Oh well, gonna have to wait awhile to use them.
EDIT 2 - Actually the labels do work in Safari, even though the announcement says it would only work in IE7 and Firefox 2.
Last edited by DirtyLarry on 04 Dec 2007 - 14:53
Sounds like there is a bad advert being served, perhaps?
Since the News section seems to be up, it would be nice if some staffer was able to create a pinned news topic specifically on this temporary outage to keep us notified of what is going on.
Labels are like folders, just allowing mails to exist in more than one folder at once.
I got lotsa newsletters, but stuff that wasn't labeled gets mixed up in that one dump bucket we call Gmail. Gmail needs to adapt to customer needs. I must say folders is the ony reason I'm still sticking with Yahoo! Mail.
Nah, Neowin's being Al-Quaeda'd by trojans...
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/gmai...-delicious.html
Its been slow lately for me loading the page also.
One could use your logic and ask why you posted here...
How childish!!
What's the article say about how we haven't grown up?
Let's reward their 'ingenious' work by spreading the word on how great they can copy Microsoft, almost as good as Apple.
Geesh...
And i'm sorry but have you completely failed to notice about how obsessed Microsoft are with copying and trying to defeat Google?! What about ALL the web services that Google bring out, that Microsoft then bring out a few months later?!
but if somebody don't want to use that feature means who don't want to login in new version .....
how can he/she change it ....
i know there is a option of new/older version but that is for that time ,when u log in again u wull be switched to newer version
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