Twittering From Your Gmail With TwitterGadget.

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I know a whole bunch of people who live by Twitter and most also do use Gmail as their email vehicle. Now you can look out of a window in that vehicle and see you favorite Twitters.
After following up with yesterdays post on SMS with Gmail, I found this gadget, TwitterGadget.

TwitterGadget is a web 2.0 style Ajax client for Twitter for your iGoogle homepage. It also enable you to toggle on/off various display elements such as user thumbnails, timestamps, and post sources. Refresh intervals can be set from 3 to 30 minutes, or manual only. Additional information about a poster is available, at a glance, by hovering over their thumbnail image.
You can also enter symbols, dingbats and emoticons into your tweets using a pulldown menu provided.
The gadget is so good, I feel this is what Twitter should have been in the first place!So by utilizing the new add any gadget by url feature on Gmail, you can add this twittergadget to your Gmail page. The special version for Gmail with a small foot print could be found at this URL, which is also the URL you should enter when configuring add any gadget by URL.
http://www.twittergadget.com/gadget_gmail.xml
So go get Twitter in your Gmail.

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Official Gmail Blog: Really new in Labs this time: SMS Text Messaging for chat

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If you are a Gmail user, you should be seeing a new Labs message as shown above. This is one of the best SMS solutions that I have seen and used in a while.
Of course I am more interested in the technical aspects of the endeavor than the final results. The management of the messaging is done very well and I really hope that this feature sticks and exit Labs to enter the mainstream.
The messaging with Chat feature on Gmail is great for a person like me, who is constantly online and my Gmail is always on. And I do not like to type on my phones, does not matter what they are, Androids, iPhones, smartphones with one exception, Blackberry. I can type on a Blackberry a complete email message without any problem. It could be because I am used to it for a long long time.
Anyway back to SMS Texting with Gmail, The user may find that her/his contact has walked away from the conversation before she/he could give the final, important message, instead of switching your communications methods like looking for phones, now you can continue to chat in your Gmail Chat window. You just send the messages to a phone number!

The phone will receive a message from a number with prefix 406 (G0O), and users friend contact can reply to the message as to any other message. Google machinery in the background will route the messages back to original users chat window. The massages from the same user will have the same number. So you can save to number in your phone.

Suppose someone started to spam you or you do not want messages from that particular user, just send "BLOCK" as a reply to the message. If you want to stop messages from Gmail altogether (DON'T) you can reply to the message with "STOP" and Google will honor your wish.

Official Gmail Blog: Really new in Labs this time: SMS Text Messaging for chat

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Google Gmail SMS Text Messaging Comes Out And Get Pulled Back

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SMS directly from you Gmail Chat, I think it would be really nice. In fact it will be so invitable to many people who are restricted by high cost of texting yosing the mobile networks. So Google Labs released the SMS Chat For Gmail but sadly had to pull back du to some bug that the labs team discovered.
It is mighty nice of them to inform us what happened and I am looking forward to the release, as Gmail and Google Docs have become a part my daily staples.
But remember, Google Labs feature might not become the mainstay of regular Google offerings. But this one, I hope it does. There will be many people who will be joining Google, just foe the SMS.
Official Gmail Blog: Almost new in Labs: SMS Text Messaging for chat

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