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Gmail gets a Google+-like makeover

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From www.computerworld.com - July 2, 2011 4:01 AM
Google is giving Gmail users a glimpse of design updates that will roll out over the next few months.

Those updates will make the email service look a whole lot like the company's just-launched social network, Google+ .

In a blog post Thursday, Jason Cornwell, a user experience designer at Google, noted that the company is aiming to give Gmail a cleaner look and make it easier to use.

Gmail isn't the only Google application that's getting a makeover this summer. According to Cornwell, Google Calendar will also get a new look that will be revealed in the next few days.
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Is Social In Google’s DNA?, Tom Anderson Worried About Googles Algorithm-Driven Philosophy

Is Social In Google’s DNA?, Tom Anderson Worried About Googles Algorithm-Driven Philosophy | The Google+ Project | Scoop.it
From techcrunch.com - July 18, 2011 3:53 AM
Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Tom Anderson, the former President, founder and first friend on MySpace. You can now find Tom on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+

I love using G+, enough so that I’m worried that Google is going to make a misstep and ruin the service. Specifically I worry that Google will assume an algorithm alone is what’s needed to reduce the “signal to noise” ratio in the G+ feed. Several Google engineers have posted publicly that they’re working on this algorithm.

One of the key issues that will determine the fate & nature of G+ is whether Google favors an algorithmic approach over a user-controlled approach to the stream. Facebook (almost counterintuitively) is the one that favors an algorithmic approach, and currently it’s one of the defining differences between Facebook and G+.

Please give us control Google. If you do, we’ll have no reason to complain about your algorithm.
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