Thursday, November 1, 2012

Gmail Makeover Coming



Note: The new Gmail program was delivered to my inbox yesterday. First impression is that it is different versus better or worse. It takes some getting use to--which I guess is to be expected. I'm sure I will have a stronger opinion in a couple of days, when I try to use familiar features and discover they have changed.

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  1. Now if Gmail could just force Wenzel to post the FULL content to RSS! Seriously!

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    1. Presumably he thinks he'll get more eyes on his ads if people have to click through to the site.

      I think this is really wrong-headed.

      When I see a bunch of two-line (truncated) posts on the RSS feed, I generally can't be bothered to find out if they are worth reading. I have many other blogs in my feed. But if I can see the whole things in RSS, I'll maybe read it and then click through to read comments.

      But even without comments, I still find myself clicking through if I can see more in the RSS. If I see 5 or so interesting posts, it feels more worth my while to go to the site.

      Really I think the key to generating ad revenue is providing the best user experience possible.

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  2. Another Gmail makeover?
    Here's a suggestion: when you delete a message, DON'T delete your reply from the Send-folder.
    In all my other email clients, the Send folder is separate from and not affected by deletes from another folder.

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