I find it hard to believe that I’m the first person to notice this (and I follow the blogosphere pretty closely), but when I fired-up Gmail this morning, and went to add a contact, I found a subtle (but welcome) improvement.
It used to be that the contact fields, “Title,” and “Company” were buried down in the “More Information” section.
Now, they’re more conveniently located beneath the name:
I have to admit, I was pretty suprised when Google released its own web browser a few months back.
After all, it was really looking like they’d bitten off more than they could chew.
But, Google is the #1 web brand, and (it’s claimed) “the “best and the brightest” worked there, once, so…
I took a look, and wow… There were some shortcomings… There was no support for extensions, there were a lot of privacy concerns, and (surprise?)… It still had the Google “Beta” designation (it seems that everything from Google is in perpetual beta).
I have to admit that I’m a “breaking tech news junkie,” and therefore, a major consumer of RSS feeds. My reader of choice is Google Reader, with which I spend a good hour each morning, along with my cup of coffee.
Late yesterday, Google released a face lift for my venerable friend, and after having spent some time with it, I have to admit that for the most part, I enjoy the changes.
Google billed the changes as improving on the appearance and performance of the previous version, and while appearance is subjective (I preferred the previous version), the improvements in performance and functionality are nice additions.
Read the complete announcement, including specifics of the changes, over in the Official Google Reader Blog.