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Introducing Gmail Blue | Official Gmail Blog

11 points by chewymouse 14y ago

obilgic 14y ago
Are they teasing the new http://outlook.com http://outlook.com ?
hkmurakami 14y ago
Blue... 41 Shades of blue [1] Blue Fav Icon [2] And most obviously the new OS being developed up the Pacific coast [3] Anything else? [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/business/01marissa.html?pagewanted=3&_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/business/01marissa.html?pa... [2] http://www.neowin.net/news/noticed-googles-new-favicon-yet-google-goes-all-out-on-blue http://www.neowin.net/news/noticed-googles-new-favicon-yet-g... [3] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2417055,00.asp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2417055,00.asp
stevoyoung 14y ago
...and so it begins. The problem with these are they are (slightly) amusing for the tech folks but absolutely confusing for normal people. I played the video and told my wife to watch to see her reaction. She didn't laugh or smirk, she just said "What the hell is that" and we back to reading her book.
- xorgar831 14y ago
  Maybe, it has to do with this site being blue: http://www.outlook.com http://www.outlook.com
  - BruceIV 14y ago
    Well, you can make it other colors too (mine is green, Gmail's spam filter hit a 10% false positive rate for me, so I switched)
martingordon 14y ago
Nice, but very subtle, dig at Microsoft. For those of you not following, "Windows Blue" is the codename for the next update to Windows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8#Windows_Blue_update http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8#Windows_Blue_update
michaelrhansen 14y ago
So my cable company is Cox and the DVR menu is.. blue.. like everything is blue (light and dark). In fact it so hard to read from a distance, I am beginning to wonder if their design team seriously were thinking like this. I am sure there is a setting that I may be able to adjust, but seriously...
magnetikonline 14y ago
One of the better pranks this year from Google - love it.
tovmeod 14y ago
Funniest part was saying it took 6 years to develop the technology

11 points by chewymouse 14y ago

Are they teasing the new http://outlook.com http://outlook.com ?

Blue... 41 Shades of blue [1] Blue Fav Icon [2] And most obviously the new OS being developed up the Pacific coast [3] Anything else? [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/business/01marissa.html?pagewanted=3&_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/business/01marissa.html?pa... [2] http://www.neowin.net/news/noticed-googles-new-favicon-yet-google-goes-all-out-on-blue http://www.neowin.net/news/noticed-googles-new-favicon-yet-g... [3] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2417055,00.asp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2417055,00.asp

stevoyoung 14y ago

...and so it begins. The problem with these are they are (slightly) amusing for the tech folks but absolutely confusing for normal people. I played the video and told my wife to watch to see her reaction. She didn't laugh or smirk, she just said "What the hell is that" and we back to reading her book.

xorgar831 14y ago
Maybe, it has to do with this site being blue: http://www.outlook.com http://www.outlook.com
- BruceIV 14y ago
  Well, you can make it other colors too (mine is green, Gmail's spam filter hit a 10% false positive rate for me, so I switched)

martingordon 14y ago

Nice, but very subtle, dig at Microsoft. For those of you not following, "Windows Blue" is the codename for the next update to Windows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8#Windows_Blue_update http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8#Windows_Blue_update

michaelrhansen 14y ago

So my cable company is Cox and the DVR menu is.. blue.. like everything is blue (light and dark). In fact it so hard to read from a distance, I am beginning to wonder if their design team seriously were thinking like this. I am sure there is a setting that I may be able to adjust, but seriously...

magnetikonline 14y ago

One of the better pranks this year from Google - love it.

tovmeod 14y ago

Funniest part was saying it took 6 years to develop the technology