InsideGoogle reports of seeing new Gmail Features, but I am not yet. Nathan has observed the addition of Atom Feeds and Drafts and the Contacts List being moved into the main navigation on the left side.
The most surprising new feature that Nathan mentions, however, is the ability to set up automatic forwarding of your Gmail to another email inbox. Now this I will have to see for myself. That will really rock if it is true.
I am seeing conflicting reports on what the Atom Feeds really do. Nathan says, "You can now receive your new mail notifications in your RSS reader". But Steve Rubel is saying the feeds include a summary of each new message in your Google email. The screen grabs from Steve show a label with the title "News Feeds(6)".
It appears that you can use Gmail as a newsreader now. The feeds will show up in your labels section. If that is the case, then Google will have to do something about labels now -- like maybe add folders! They probably should have folders anyway. Labels are fine and dandy for "tagging" your mail, but folders would be handier for "sorting" your mail. Throw in newsfeeds and that just compounds the mess.
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