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Dear Paul Buchheit, may I officially request playback a la Etherpad in Gmail and Gdocs?
Just want to make sure the request is made, and I didn't see a better way to do it. If I could sell my karma points back to move this to the top, I would.
- wyday 18y agoHe doesn't work at google anymore.
- niels_olson 18y agodamn. Who does? Forgive my ignorance. I'm a med student in New Orleans. The Valley is somewhere vaguely near a port city where I had dim sum once.
- nostrademons 18y agoThis is as good as requesting it. ;-) The thing is - decisions at Google are all made in a data-driven fashion. So "this random person I met on the Internet wants us to implement keystroke playback" doesn't carry much weight. "Someone on Hacker News suggested GMail and GDocs implement keystroke playback, and then 900 people upvoted it, and then it got picked up by Reddit and Del.icio.us, and then the NY Times wrote a story about how it's the next big innovation" would probably be pretty convincing, though. So if you want it, convince other people it's a good idea, and convince them to express their support of it. Somebody at Google will see it eventually.
- paul 18y agoI left Google almost 3 years ago. Keith is the person you want to bug about Gmail now: http://friendfeed.com/keith http://friendfeed.com/keith Why would you want keystroke playback in Gmail though? I'd rather have "undo send", among other things. (yes it's doable, just add a small delay to the actual delivery -- I usually realize my mistake within a few seconds)
- trapper 18y agoAgreed. What practical use is it? While they are at it, they could do the same with email (delayed send for certain tags) that you could easily cancel the sending. Also, "did you mean to cc everyone on your list, this is frowned upon" type prevention :)
- lacker 18y agoActually I think the more interesting suggestion in your post is being able to "sell back" karma points to move a submission up.