The engineers at Google continue adding features to their Gmail and Gmail chat software; most recently adding the ability to play a video clip from YouTube within the chat window itself.
I love the fact the developers behind Gmail and Gmail chat continue to add new features, many rather innovative and useful. This one I’m not clear on however; is this really a necessary improvement, or an improvement at all? As a user, I’m not sure I want to see video thumbnails in a chat window.
The skeptic in me says this might be Google’s way of testing out inline video advertisements across some of their products. Also, how long before this feature is introduced into Gmail itself? This might be one idea that should stay in the labs.
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