{"id":295684,"date":"2010-02-08T19:39:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T00:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-02-08:article\/419-following-rivals-gmail-will-add-status-updates"},"modified":"2010-02-08T19:39:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T00:39:56","slug":"following-rivals-gmail-will-add-status-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/295684","title":{"rendered":"Following Rivals, Gmail Will Add Status Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG<\/a>), which shook up the e-mail industry when it integrated chat with e-mail, is now trying to catch up to its rivals by letting Gmail users share status updates. The WSJ<\/em> reports<\/a> that Google will soon add a “new module that will allow Gmail users to view a stream of status updates from people they choose to connect with.” If it catches on, that could potentially add a new force to the Twitter-dominated microblogging world, considering that Gmail had 132 million unique users worldwide as of last March (the last figures I could quickly get my hands on).\n<\/p>\n

Unlike with chat, however, Google is actually following its two biggest e-mail rivals—Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO<\/a>)—in letting users share and track status updates. (Big caveat here: We don’t actually know all of what the feature involves or what it will look like; we’ve asked and will update if we hear back). <\/p>\n

But Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT<\/a>) added<\/a> social networking-like features—which let users share activities around the web, along with status updates, called ‘notes’—to Windows Live way back in November 2008. And Yahoo announced in August<\/a> that users of Yahoo Mail would be able to share status updates.\n<\/p>\n

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