Technological Guide.

Gmail People Widget, another new feature for Gmail

Saturday, May 28th, 2011

Image via Gmail Blog

Image via Gmail Blog

Many of us are familiar with Gmail and myself use Gmail only as my primary email :). Gmail, the popular free email provider is going to launch a new feature, People Widget in the daily email we use.

Using this widget, we can see the list of people included in our email conversation on the right side of mail with their contact details (email and photo), recent emails which we received from them, their relevant buzz posts (if any) and including their shared documents and calendar events.

Its a kind of quick way to communicate with people, whoever we see in the email conversation. Its useful to start a group chat or schedule a meeting with groups of people.

I feel this is an exciting and useful feature for users who like to have Social Networking features embedded in Gmail. This new widget is about to be rolled out by Google in less than two weeks

Voice Chat coming to Facebook and Twitter

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

The new vivox voice chat system for Facebook

Vivox is the leading provider of voice chat services for online games and virtual worlds, is now providing a new technology to Facebook and Twitter members to have voice conversations with their friends or followers on their friends list. Vivox is planning to offer free dial-in numbers which will allow to call non-members into an existing conversation.