Kishore Balakrishnan’s Blog

If FriendFeed is Twitter on Steroids, what would be FriendFeed on Steroids?

1. tags for “share something” - tags for the “comments” would be nice
2. ability to “share something” to arbitrary list of nicknames and emails without need to create a room!
3. change tags with version management
4. ordinal priority at tag intersection level and collaborative ordinal priority - first step : sort by likes+comment descending
5. ?

Dear Gmail

I have created lot of labels and one of them is xyz

Am looking at a mail and I want to label it xyz

There are 2 situations: Either
1) I do not remember that I created xyz or
2) Am lazy to scroll down the list of labels to look for xyz

Due to the above reasons, I click on “new label”

The pop-up is “Please enter a new label name”

I enter “xyz”

The message is “The label name you have chosen already exists. Please try another name:”

Oops. Why can’t Gmail accept this label and say

“Dear Kishore. You were lazy to select the label that already existed. I assigned the existing label. Have a nice day. Wish you a lazy day:-)”

Pinging the latest post in The Official Gmail Blog: We are Hiring