Google Mail - un-send your e-mail during 30 seconds

Just came across one interesting post-guide on how to enable very useful feature in Gmail allowing to correct what seems to be uncorrectable. Gmail unsend feature.

No stranger to mistakes, Google is now lending a helping hand to its users. Earlier this month, the search engine giant extended the time users can take before deciding to cancel a message. When Google introduced the undo feature in 2009, it allotted only five seconds for users to pull back a message.

But as of this month, Google will now have up to 30 seconds to scream mulligan on their latest message.

How's it possible, you might ask, to cancel a message if it's already been read? Well, the geniuses of Mountain View are actually testing a feature that enables users to set up a built-in delay before a message is actually sent.

Here is a guide to set-up the undo feature:

1. Log in to Gmail and go to Google Labs. If you've never gone to Labs before, click the word "more" in the very top left corner, then scroll down and click "even more."
2. In the column on the right, click "Labs." It's next to the icon of a beaker filled with green stuff.
3. Click "Gmail Labs" in the column on the right.
4. Scroll down almost all the way to the bottom until you see "Undo Send." Click "enable" and the feature is now on. Then scroll the rest of the way down and look in the bottom left corner for the "Save Changes" box. Click it.
5. Now, go back to the main Gmail page and click "Settings" in the top right. You should also see your green Labs beaker icon there now -- this will let you go straight to Labs from now on.
6. Scroll down to "Undo Send" -- it should be right above "My Picture." Your default should be set to 10 seconds. But you can use the drop-down bar to stretch that to 30 seconds.
7. Scroll down and hit "Save Changes."
8. To undo an email, just look for the box at the top of the screen that will have the words "Your message has been sent." After that, you should see the "Undo" option. Click that and you'll be sent back to the e-mail's draft form, where you'll have 30 seconds to edit or delete it before it goes out.

Linkedin Discussion - Gmail Priority Box

In the beginning of the week Gmail launched a new feature Priority Box, which is an algorithmic solution to email overload. It automatically processes your email by factoring in variable such as who the email was sent by, how many people it was sent to and the keywords included in the subject and body of the message in order to determine which email is important. Emails that fit to the category (which you can set by yourself) appear in the dedicated box.

Seems like the feature is something very useful, but to find out if it proves useful on practice I decided to start a discussion on Linkedin. Here are results:

1. Many respondents found this feature very useful for those who deals with abundant correspondence

2. Learning Curve not so steep

3. Automatic recognition is seen very helpful


Among the main features there are:

1. Prioritize Filters
2. Customize Sections
3. Start With a Clean Slate
4. Use Your “Inbox” for Folders
5. Test Priority with Multiple Inboxes


To see the full discussion on Linkedin please follow this link

Google Social Circle - How to use it?

Apparently you already noticed the new section in the bottom of Google search results, called "My Social Circle", which provides social activity of your connections relevant to your query. You can also look at how much Google knows about you and your online connections through the next to social results "My Social Circle"

You'll marvel when first look at the list of your social circle, mine was just tremendous! The page also provides information of your circle online destinations and Google - NonGoogle services your connections use.

The list contains people you talk or chat with using Gmail or Google Talk, plus your social networking connections from a Twitter and other services. For each person in your circle, it then shows the services they use, and also their blogs and other streams. Quite a lot of information from the first glance, so how to use it for your benefit. Here is some good ways:

1. Check what you're sharing and who you share with - Social Circle allows you to see all connections you're making public on your Google profile, so you can check if there are connections you don't want to be associated with, you can easily filter them.

2. Find new connections through 2nd degree - There is a "Secondary connections" section on top. Like in LinkedIn you can find new interesting people to follow through your first connections.

3. Find new information, blogs, and services - there are many interesting people within your network, so it might be a good idea to look at what services they use, and what they write about. If you follow a Social Media guru on Twitter you can also check his blog and buzz thread.

Hope we can find more use of Social Circle, and Google it wouldn't abandon it as it did with Wave!