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Gmail Highlights Top Productivity Features

I remember when I was first introduced to Gmail. It was back in 2005, and I was a dedicated Hotmail user back then. The girl I was dating told me all about Gmail and sent me one of the exclusive beta invites. What won me over to the service? Well, beyond having a cute girl tell me that it was the better service (it’s amazing how effective that sales pitch is), I liked the minimalistic design and the ability to archive emails. Back then, though, that was the core of what Gmail offered. Over the last six years, the service has developed in innumerable ways – especially when it comes to productivity.

It’s this litany of features that makes Gmail more difficult for beginning users to pick up, and is probably the reason why the more simplistic Yahoo still holds the “top free webmail service’ title. But for those interested in narrowing down the number of enabled features, Google product manager Paul McDonald (one of the more prominent public voices behind Gmail) has [...]
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Date : 2011-05-02 09:51:03
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