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Gmail Labs rolls out Message Sneak Peek and Nested Labels

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gmail nested labelsMore Gmail Labs goodies. First up is the Message Sneak Peek which when enabled, lets you preview a message without having to open them first. There is either a keyboard shortcut (‘h’) or you can right-click. Strangely enough, this only worked in Firefox for me and not Chrome.

Next is the much desired and anticipated Nested Labels which mimics hierarchical folders in traditional e-mail and file systems. Although already offered in extensions like Better Gmail, many folks wanted it built-in and/or offered directly by Google, as the extensions tended to break from time to time when Gmail was updated.

Mozilla Labs’ Raindrop project aims to cut through e-mail clutter

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Mozilla-RaindropDo you get too much e-mail, whose volume has grown significantly in recent times due to social networking notifications from the likes of Facebook & Twitter?

How do you sort it out and quickly? Filters? Folders? Those methods may be doing the trick right now, but Mozilla Labs is working on a different approach – creating views of your messages (not necessarily e-mail only) and letting you interact with those conversations without having to switch applications.
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Yahoo! Mail still #1, but for how much longer?

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ComScore shows Yahoo Mail is still the world’s leader in e-mail services, but the bad news (for Yahoo) is that Google’s Gmail is the fastest growing service. Hotmail is still #2, and AOL just slipped to #4 after Gmail who leapfrogged them to go to #3.

Four years ago when we sized up Hotmail vs Yahoo vs Gmail, Gmail was the clear winner and has only become progressively better. Witness all of the improvements and feature additions that they’ve [Google] have put into Gmail.

For example, this week Google showed off another killer feature – the ability to import your e-mail from other accounts into Gmail.

Do yourself a favor and get a Gmail account.

Gmail’s 2 latest features: Translation and Import from other accounts

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Gmail has 2 cool new features. The first can be really useful for those of us who frequently get e-mail from all over the world – language translation. Just head into your Gmail Labs section, look for Message Translation and enable. Messages in foreign languages will now have a link to translate. I was surprised that some Chinese messages were translated into very readable text.

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Gmail Labs now has an insert image feature

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Thank you, thank you Gmail Labs team. There is now a new Labs feature that lets you insert images directly into e-mails you compose within Gmail. While it’s not something I use that often, when I do, I spend waaaay too much time trying to get images inserted.

Don’t know about Gmail Labs? Oh, you’re missing out, but I warn you – don’t go clicking that tab right now unless you’ve got a few hours to spend exploring, oohing and aahing.

New free Webmail service – GMX.com

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There’s a new kid on the Webmail block – GMX.com. GMX Internet Services, Inc. claims to have over 10 million Internet mail accounts, and has attracted 100,000 users in the beta testing of their new webmail service. Built with a lot of AJAX features, the GMX interface resembles Outlook and Hotmail more than Gmail or even Yahoo Mail, and sports 5GB of storage.

Here are my initial thoughts where I compare GMX mainly to Gmail as that’s my primary webmail client.
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20% of Americans have never used e-mail

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According to a recent survey, 1 in 5 Americans have never sent an e-mail and 20 million households are without Internet access. This is not a surprising statistic to me. It was only about 2 years ago that the stat on businesses that had an Internet presence was estimated at less than 1 in 10. That may seem staggering but think about how many small businesses there are that have been operating just fine prior to the explosion of the Internet.

Now this does not mean that all of these users are luddites or simply too poor to afford a computer and/or Internet access. Age is a large factor. I can think of my Mom who is in her 60s and who I’ve just convinced to use e-mail and instant messenger! But I would never consider my parents’ household behind the times. They have computers, cell phones, LCD TVs and the usual trappings of modern society.

All things considered, the 20% figure isn’t terrible, but there’s no question with the shift in the economy to the Internet and online business that the outliers need to get moved over. It may just take some time though as you can only ‘persuade’ so many people.

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