Gmail As a Personal Nerve Center

I came across this at dig.com while scanning for possible blogging material. This was quite an article and I have been thinking along the lines as the writer. Making Gmail as the hotspot of your internet use that can range from a simple e-mail tool to a news update, blogging tool, Calendar, etc has been something that could always be a possibility but I have never delved into the thought until now. Gmail has so much potential aside from being an IM and e-mail tool with all that storage space that it can surely handle.

One of the possible outcomes that caught my interest was the Calendar, blogging and the real-time news update. He also mentioned something that I haven’t known before – Twitter. Looking at the site, it seems lively but the main reason for twitter is for consecutive updates to post on the main page of what people are currently doing right at that moment. I am positive, however, that there are other uses for Twitter as he says – he mentions that he uses it from time to time to check if anyone updates it for more informative uses such as current news.

Overall the innovative way that he uses his Gmail is what I find fascinating. I may actually try it out and, as such, I actually saved the article into my Google toolbar. It’s true that the new Google toolbar has a Gmail function that you can take advantage of. I’ve actually begun doing that as of this moment.