Gmail Adds Preview Feature For Picasa & Youtube Videos

By Raghav Soni • March 20, 2009

A few months ago when google launched youtube preview feature for google chat, very few would have anticipated further development on that front. Now gmail the revolutionary mail service from google has gone a step ahead and launched the preview feature for various services in mails. The service works by converting links in emails to preview functionality.

Currently this Gmail lab feature is available for YouTube, Picasa, Flickr and Yelp previews.

To enable this feature go to settings—>lab—> and enable preview separately for each services.

This opens up email to a great preview possibility just like snapshots and may even be extended to chats too.

Here are few snapshots of the service:

Picasa preview in gmail:

yelp reviews:

youtube videos:

At the same time google has also showcased the prowess of chrome internet broswer by bunching great javascripters to showcase their work on ChromeExperiments. This amazing app shows ransacked google homepage.

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Categories: International, News, Uncategorized, Web
Tags: gmail, images, preview feature, Yelp, youtube

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Raghav Soni

Raghav specializes in Equity Markets,Online Product Ideation,Interactive Marketing and Monetization strategies and as such is interested in meeting aspiring entrepreneurs through WATChannel.You can contact him on raghav [at] watblog [dot] com.