If you work on a product that would lend itself to a great preview in Gmail, we'd love to hear from you too. Give them a try and send us your thoughts. Turn on Picasa previews from the Labs tab under Settings, and rather than having to click on a Picasa album link to see the photos it contains, you can see photos right in the message itself:Įnable Youtube previews, and you can watch YouTube videos from inside your email:Īnd whenever you receive a Yelp link in an email, Yelp previews show you ratings, phone numbers, and other listing information right there: For our first set, we picked stuff that often shows up in email: YouTube videos, Picasa and Flickr links, and Yelp reviews. We built some new Gmail Labs features that do just that. So why couldn't Gmail automatically detect links in emails and show videos, photos, and ratings right inside these messages as well? If you have photos or videos in a Picasa Web Album, the easiest way to still access, modify and share most of that. That's why I like YouTube previews in Gmail chat - why open a new tab when I can watch the video my friend sent me right there? Gmail currently automatically detects package tracking information, addresses, and event information and shows quick links to delivery status, maps and directions, and Google Calendar.

What I do is I go through each raw video take, give it a title and assign some tags.

And the actual searches are typical Google-lighting-fast.

The user interface is very user-friendly. My email is full of links: my friends send around YouTube videos to try and get a laugh, we share Picasa and Flickr albums with photos from last weekend's camping trip, and we email around the Yelp reviews of restaurants we're considering going to next Friday night. The current version of Picasa for Windows (version 3.8) allows you to specify titles for images and videos, as well as assigning various tags to them.

Posted by Vishal Kasera, Software Engineer If you have photos or videos in a Picasa Web Album, the easiest way to still access, modify and share most of that content is to log in to Google Photos.

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