Just found out the next new features that Google are planning to roll out for Gmail.
Bascially, it looks like they are planning to intergrate Google Talk together within the Gmail interface.
Why’d you add chat to Gmail?
Communications these days can be frustrating. You exchange a bunch of emails with someone when really, you’d rather just get an answer instantly. You use one program for your email, and another one (or two or three) for IM. You can’t remember who said what to you where. And sometimes you can’t even remember who wallaby385 in your buddy list is.
Gmail’s chat features address a lot of these problems. You don’t have to use another program or switch between email and IM–it’s all on the same interface. The friends you’re already emailing the most show up in your Quick Contacts as themselves, not the cryptic IM names they chose six years ago. And you can save your chats so you never have to lose something important just because someone told it to you over IM.
The first thing that comes to mind is that this would solve the problem that some people have when running IM clients. If you can surf the net and get to Gmail, you can chat with anyone in your contact list. No need to install stuff and run them which takes up resources. This would be espeically useful for travellers always in cyber cafes or working people with limited accounts at work.
I had wrote about how Gmail and Google Talk would eventually intergrate someday, but this is beyond what I imagined. This is a very good tactic by Google firstly, everyone in your Gmail contact list is avalible for chat, no need to add them. This totally goes behind the back of all the other IM clients. Next, this removes the load that the Gmail mail servers are getting in processing and saving all those single-line emails. Now the chat servers will handle the load, then save the whole chat history as one big, easier to handle, chat history to Gmail.
I can’t wait to try it out. Oh and its nice to be right. What’s scary is that I could be right about the other stuff as well.
