A recent survey of 543 business execs by ad agency Gyro and Forbes Insights found 98% of such workers check email during their “off” time. If that’s not bad enough, 63% say they check on their email at least every one or two hours when they’re out of the office. The trend holds up when the execs are on vacation — only 3% say they don’t check work emails.
Gmail has got a new look, newly redesigned Gmail in a video was accidentally posted to YouTube today by Google, offering a tour of the revamped email service. Conversation views now more closely resemble IMs (with profile pictures) and the advanced search options are more easily accessible and prominently displayed. The themes are also getting updated with higher resolution wallpapers to better match the spartan UI. Not that you need any encouragement. Jason Cornwell, user experience designer for Gmail, unveils the new version in the video. The Google Operating System blog spotted the video and it has since been made private
Read MoreEmail remains the strongest online activity around the globe. In fact email users are expected to reach 3.8 billion by 2014. This is nearly half of earth's current population, and a significant climb from 2.9 billion reported users in 2010. Now that most are equipped with smartphone and iPads, is anyone still logging on to view their messages on a monitor? Here we take a look at how our phones and other technological 'toys' have changed the way we view email. The comparison is from July 2010 to July 2011. According to Litmus, use of mobile devices to read email
Read MoreProtocol.by an experimental side-project by Greg Elliott and Hugo Van Vuuren to explore the evolution of communication protocols helps you generate email signatures that link to your account at the service, and that contain the information your email recipients need to best contact you, and the order in which they should try. You can tell your friends, family, colleagues and potential customers how to get in touch with you. Create your account at Protocol.by by linking your Google account (Google Apps are supported, and this is only used for authentication, it's not tied to your Google-hosted email,) choose a username
Read MoreFounded by Courtland Allen and Niccolo Pantucci, Taskforce is an Gmail application which convert e-mails into tasks and create reminders for them. TaskForce is a little window that lives in your Gmail, splitting your messages into types: information, action, and broadcast. It lets you add tasks directly from its interface or through email, at the top of each message there will be two buttons; “Convert to a New Task” or “Add to an Existing Task”. You can share tasks with others, even if they don't use TaskForce. You and others can comment on tasks, prioritize, and attach files and it
Read MorePowerinbox a Boston, MA-based open app platform for email, is a startup whose idea is to innovate on top of email by augmenting the messages sent to you by various services, essentially turning your emails into apps. Powerinbox, the new email platform that lets you run apps for Facebook, Twitter, and Groupon inside your inbox has today added support for Google+. (Despite not having access to an official Google+ API, the company was able to analyze the Google+ protocol by tracking the requests between the official Google+ client and server. Powerinbox then created its own internal API and built its
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