Drag and drop feature comes to gmail for attachments

Adam de Boor, (Software Engineer) Say's

I'm always looking for ways to save time. Suppose I want to attach some files to an email, and I already have a folder open containing those files.


I used to have to click "Attach a file," find the photos, click them, etc. Starting today, if I'm using Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox 3.6, I can just drag and drop the files to attach them — easy as pie.



We'll enable this for other browsers as soon as they support this feature. For now, you can drag and drop attachments in Chrome and Firefox only.

Source: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/drag-and-drop-attachments-onto-messages.html

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Google Follow Finder: "Tweeps you might like"

Aaron Wise, (Associate Product Manager) say's

This morning we announced a replay feature in real-time search that helps you search the public archive of updates from Twitter. Now, we have more Twitter news from today's Chirp Conference. We've just released a new experimental service in Google Labs called Google Follow Finder to help you expand your Twitter network. With Google Follow Finder, simply enter your Twitter account name and you'll see a list of people you might be interested in following. You can also get interesting suggestions by entering other Twitter user names. Here's what it looks like:


If you see someone you want to follow, just click "Follow on Twitter," log in, and they'll be added to your following list in Twitter. This integration is based on Twitter's new @anywhere frameworks, which make it easy for any site to add Twitter functionality. We're using the frameworks to provide dynamic information about Twitter accounts and one-click following.

The lists in Google Follow Finder are generated using public following and follower lists on Twitter. For example, if you follow CNN and the New York Times on Twitter, and most people who follow CNN and the New York Times also tend to follow TIME, we'll suggest TIME as a "Tweep you might like." The list of "Tweeps with similar followers" is simply a list of accounts with similar follower lists to yours.

Source / Related:
http://buzz.blogger.com/2010/04/share-blogger-posts-to-buzz.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/google-follow-finder-find-some-sweet.html
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/google-buzz-buttons.html
http://google-au.blogspot.com/2010/04/replay-it-google-search-across-twitter.html

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Share on Buzz from the Blogger posts

Jiho Han, (Software Engineer, Blogger) Say's

When Google Buzz launched in February, many wondered how they could share cool posts to their Buzz stream. That's why we're excited to announce that Blogger has made it easy to share to Google Buzz via the Share button in the Blogger navigation bar. Just click "Share", choose Google Buzz, and you'll be able to customize your message before posting to Buzz.

Google Buzz is a new way to share updates, photos, videos and more, and start conversations about the things you find interesting. Better yet, all comments to your Buzz post get sent right to your Gmail inbox so it's easy to keep the conversation going. Just go to the Google Buzz homepage and give it a try! We know you write interesting stuff, so sharing to Buzz is a great way to spread the word about your blog.

Building your audience is important, and sharing to social networks is a great way to promote your site. We are committed to make the sharing experience better on Blogger: more updates are on their way, so please stay tuned.

Source / Related:
http://buzz.blogger.com/2010/04/share-blogger-posts-to-buzz.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/google-follow-finder-find-some-sweet.html
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/google-buzz-buttons.html
http://google-au.blogspot.com/2010/04/replay-it-google-search-across-twitter.html

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Google Buzz Buttons. Looking very cool!

Mussie Shore, (Product Manager) Say's

We've seen lots of people using Google Buzz to share interesting links from around the web. To do so, you had to copy and paste the link from one browser window to another — there weren't buttons that made it easy to post to Google Buzz without leaving the site you're on. Savvy sites like Mashable and TechCrunch quickly got creative and implemented their own Buzz buttons, using Google Reader as the backend. But not every site owner should have to hack together their own version of these buttons (and not everyone who uses Buzz also uses Reader), so this morning we're making copy-and-paste Buzz buttons available for anyone to use.

Starting today, you'll see these buttons around the web on participating sites including: The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Glamour, YouTube, Blogger, MySpace, GigaOM, PBS Parents, PBS NewsHour, The Next Web, TweetDeck, SocialWok, Disqus, Vinehub, and Buzzzy. Mashable and TechCrunch have updated their sites to use these new buttons too.


A number of sharing platforms, including ShareThis (pictured below), Meebo, Shareholic, AddThis and AddtoAny have also incorporated the Google Buzz button into their sharing functionality, so you'll see Buzz listed as a choice when you go to share something on many other sites around the web as well.


If you want to add Google Buzz buttons to your site, just go to buzz.google.com/stuff, configure your buttons with a couple clicks and copy a few lines of JavaScript. Paste this code where you'd like the Buzz buttons to appear and you're all set.


And if you'd like to promote your own Google Buzz account, we have a button for you, which allows people to follow you on Buzz right from your blog or website. Here's an example using the Google Buzz team's own Buzz account (clicking it will take you to the Buzz team's profile page and from there you can easily follow our team's posts):

 Follow on Buzz 

You can grab that button code from buzz.google.com/stuff as well.

Source: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/google-buzz-buttons.html

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