Millions of people upload pictures to Flickr or search for restaurant reviews using Yelp every month. Moreover, millions of people use Google’s Gmail email service. So wouldn’t it be more productive to fuse the three together?
The Gmail team has done just that, announcing this past Wednesday that new tabs under the Labs setting allows users to see links to Flickr and Picasa photos, Youtube videos, and Yelp reviews from within email messages rather than having to click through to the destination site.
This might not seem like much, but given the fact that most of these sites often are the end destinations of the links we put in our email messages to friends, family and co-workers, the time savings over the course of a few months or years could be quite large. And aside from the time savings, it makes Gmail all that much easier to use.
Gmail has become much more location-aware and socially-connected as of late. Not only can the email platform track packages and detect address and event information, but you can add a geo-aware signature to your outbound email messages as well.
