Is Gmail's Call Phone feature a game-changer?

Every once in a while a new feature is added to Gmail. The features are usually announced on a Google blog post and quickly picked up by the blogosphere. That's exactly what happened with Gmail's new "Call Phone" feature. 

 

If you're a Gmail user, and you have the voice and video plugin installed, you'll see a "Call phone" option in the "chat" section of Gmail. To make a call, you just click the link and an overlay with a dial pad pops up. You can either search your contacts, or dial the number using the pad. 

 

I've had a couple problems making outbound calls, where it says that the user I was calling ended the conversation, but the call was never placed. When this happens, I hit the "redial" button and the call goes through. 

Keeping track of those pesky to-dos


I'm the type of person who will likely forget about something unless I jot it down. Over the years I've used whiteboards, sticky notes (both real and computerized) and notebooks to keep track of my to-dos.

Pro cycling returns to Colorado and I get to ride "with" Lance

When you have more than 2 million Twitter followers, it’s no surprise that you can get a few thousand of them to show up in the middle of a Wednesday morning for a bike ride.

 

Oh and it doesn’t hurt if you’re Lance Armstrong either. Lance was in Denver to announce that a pro cycling race, the Quizno’s Pro Tour, is scheduled to take place in Colorado Aug. 22-28, 2011.

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