Google is about to make a number of social networking updates to its Gmail service, as said by reports. The company declined to corroborate any specific updates, but did say that it will be unveiling a few new product innovations this evening.
The reported enhancements include a real-time contact update stream, alike to those provided by Twitter and Facebook, as well as photo and video sharing capabilities.
Google users can previously post status updates to Google Chat, which is connected to Gmail, but it is unclear whether Google will aggregate the chat updates or create a wholly new add-on for internet users to access real-time information about contacts.
Additionally, while a few reports hint that Google will include add-on video and photo sharing capabilities specific to Gmail, others suggest that the web giant plans stronger ties among Gmail, YouTube and Picasa.
Google has had limited success in providing social networking services. And Orkut, a social networking site is very much popular in Brazil, for instance, but virtually unheard of elsewhere.Analyst firms like Gartner predict that social networking services will replace email as the primary vehicle for communications for lots of business users by 2014, and Google is likely to be feeling under more pressure to vie in this area.
Other email providers, like Yahoo and AOL, have previously made moves to become more social, whereas Facebook is rumoured to be updating its private messaging capabilities to better vie with email providers.
The reported enhancements include a real-time contact update stream, alike to those provided by Twitter and Facebook, as well as photo and video sharing capabilities.
Google users can previously post status updates to Google Chat, which is connected to Gmail, but it is unclear whether Google will aggregate the chat updates or create a wholly new add-on for internet users to access real-time information about contacts.
Additionally, while a few reports hint that Google will include add-on video and photo sharing capabilities specific to Gmail, others suggest that the web giant plans stronger ties among Gmail, YouTube and Picasa.
Google has had limited success in providing social networking services. And Orkut, a social networking site is very much popular in Brazil, for instance, but virtually unheard of elsewhere.Analyst firms like Gartner predict that social networking services will replace email as the primary vehicle for communications for lots of business users by 2014, and Google is likely to be feeling under more pressure to vie in this area.
Other email providers, like Yahoo and AOL, have previously made moves to become more social, whereas Facebook is rumoured to be updating its private messaging capabilities to better vie with email providers.
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