interview with Gmail's product manager Todd Jackson the other day in which he discussed the reason behind the beta label.
"We have very, very high standards for the product," Jaskson said. "as we do for all Google products. But we are not ready to come out of beta yet. There are a few things that we're working on, and once we meet a couple more of those criteria, we would love to come out of beta."
expects the changes over the next five years to be even more radical than over the past five. It's hard to tell just what will be in store. Google has been pretty tight-lipped about future plans for the service.Hitwise recently reported that YouTube is the 2nd biggest search engine). They say that Google hasn't exactly been known for their social media attempts. I have a theory though that Gmail has kind of been Google's social network all along. Granted, it's a private social network, but with it, you can:
- send messages to friends
- keep conversations with multiple friends together
- embed videos/rich media in emails/chat messages
- send messages to people beyond the Gmail wall
- use search operators to bring up all photos /other media from any past messages
- Account holders have profile pages with their picture
- Creating a Google account essentially gives you an account to a much broader range of products in Google itself that allow for sharing things with friends (such as Reader, and Tell us
How about as a social network?
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