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Gmail colours: Is this really news?
I know that pretty much anything Google does is worthy of comment — and not just a little comment, but a ton of comment — but isn’t all the hubbub about coloured Gmail tags just a little over the top? I mean, I’m a big fan of Google and of Gmail, but still. Adding coloured tags? I know that Fred Oliveira thinks it’s a big deal, and MG Siegler at ParisLemon seems similarly excited, but still. Colour me unimpressed. What’s next — a storm of blog posts when Digg decides to change the shape of its buttons to a modified trapezoid instead of an oblate spheroid?
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I know a lot of these small Google updates get a ton of hype only to never be talked about 2 days later, but I really do love this one.
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PS: if you could change the spelling of my last name to Oliveira, I'd appreciate it (it confuses Google, because a lot of people do it) :-)
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people do that to me too. I will change it right away.
As for your post, I think your points about the benefits of colours
make total sense. I think it's a useful feature.
I guess I just found the Techmeme cluster about it a little comical, that's all.
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I'd be much more interested in a way to group folders together (as Google Reader does) so that I don't have to scroll or page down to see all of my 80+ folders.
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they're thinking about folders apparently -- or at least want us to
think that they are :-)
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blog storm on Techmeme :-)
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