links

[T. M. Tracy]

I know, we have talked about this before..

You know what I like? When gmail scans my email, and says "hey, this
is an address, click here to get a map" or "this looks like a
tracking number, click here to track it."

I think it's neat. because it just saves me the time of copying it,
and pasting it into google to get that info. I know it sounds lazy,
but it's a nice feature if you ask me. not to mention, the...links
that arn't sponsored. I don't remember the name.. but those are
really helpful sometimes. links to pages that have to do with what my
email is about. I've found them really usefull many times...


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"If you can't convince them, confuse them."
-Harry S. Truman

[Ashish Poddar]

i think this sounds more like a browser extension... why to limit it to emails only ??

 

btw what do u mean by tracking number !! i didnt get that part...

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Ashish Poddar
Its high time we standardize everything!
Y:ashish_poddar | MSN:ashish...@yahoo.com | gTalk:ahpodd...@gmail.com

[T. M. Tracy]

um, no...it's not. it's a feature of gmail.

when someone sends me a tracking number....gmail gives me a link on
the side to track it using the shipping company's tracking service.
same with addresses.

[Caleb]

yeah, and autolink (google toolbar) works the same way for addresses and crap.  I love it, its freakin awesome. let me see if i can initiate it:

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500

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Caleb
"Yeah, I have pretty bad loss of short term memory loss." --Anonymous

[Caleb]

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
NW Washington, DC 20500

[Caleb]

poo on you gmail

1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain view, CA 94043

[Ashish Poddar]

no links for me yet !!

[Caleb]

yeah...gmail has stage fright...

[Caleb]

HA! im not crazy

http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Generation/browse_thread/thread/f431791a04b74246/d65ef727869d64a5?q=1600&rnum=1&hl=en#d65ef727869d64a5

[T. M. Tracy]

no, it's not the autolink on the google toolbar, since I don't have google toolbar...but it is linking those addresses.

 

Would you like to...
	Get directions 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20001
	Get directions

1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain view, CA 94043

About these links

About these links

[Caleb]

yeah, i knew that, i was just saying that it did basically the same thing in extension format @ashish.

[T. M. Tracy]

oh oh, yeah.

[Ashish Poddar]

but still in the extension format... it will be general not only for the emails, but for nay webpage u visit.. like u make a booking ni some hotel, and right there u look it up on the map !!

 

about the tracking no. that can be email specific... coz that information will mostly be in some email only...

 

[Caleb]

yes, thats what autolink does.  and its in extension format and works from any webpage.

"Yeah, I have pretty bad short term memory loss of short term memory." --Anonymous

[Ashish Poddar]

ur new signature brought a lot of memory advices in the ads !! check them out :p

thanks for info,
ashish.

[Caleb]

thats great.  FUNERAL there they're gone (i think)

[Caleb]

crap it didnt work
how about death

[Caleb]

Caleb: 1
Gmail: 0

[Ashish Poddar]

congratulations !! but remember winning a war is different than winning a battle ! ;)

[dnc]

this does not work for me in gfmail... is there a reason?

[Ashish Poddar]

what doesnt work? please quote the msg u r replying to especially when replying to 4 days old thread !

ashish.

On 10/28/05, dnc <arm...@gmail.com> wrote:

this does not work for me in gfmail... is there a reason?

[Armin Lahiji]

oh sorry... the address links in my gmail.... it does not give links for me to getdirections if there is an address in my email

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~Armin Lahiji

ar...@uclalumni.net