Gmail Chat

February 7th, 2006

Google just rolled out transcripts of chat conversations within Gmail, here's a quick screenshot:

They mention that a new in-browser chat tool is coming too, although I don't see it yet. Currently, chats are saved like emails, and you can reply to the person you were chatting with, like in an email - a very neat combination of two mediums. Check it out and drop me an IM.

Tags: gmail, mail, chat, google

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Mailing List Atom Feeds

August 6th, 2005

(Originally from a comment that I made to this Makezine post)

If you're looking to read your mailing lists in your newsreader, I'd recommend looking no further then Gmail. Gmail has a hidden feature: Atom feeds for Labels! The technique is simple:

1. Setup a filter to catch all email from a specific mailing list.
2. Apply a label to all of that mail (e.g. 'list').
3. Access the Atom feed via this URL: https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom/list/ (changing 'list' to be the name of the label.

It really is that simple - and there's no need to create extra Gmail accounts, setup fake Blogger accounts, or anything silly like that.

Tags: gmail, mail, google, syndication, feeds, atom, rss

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