According to TechCrunch, Gmail product manager Keith Coleman says that any Google employee can add their creations once they go through a simple code check.

So it certainly gives a large and easy to access testing facility for new mail features that might occur to any Google engineer. Of course, Google already has a huge internal testing base for GMail, but that’s obviously a skewed user base compared to the GMail public (at least, I assume it would be).

Not sure what any huge announcement might be. Clearly they’ll eventually launch features that integrate Open Social and other Google APIs (showing the sender or email hop points on a map or other kitschy geo-features are bound to end up in some developer’s head and turn up at some point).

Perhaps they’ll integrate a life-scanner interface so we can attach real-world objects as MIME attachments … who knows? I can only hope there are more interesting ideas coming down the pipeline.

So now for the theories, are they working on something huge and it’s to early even for labs or are they not throwing resources at gmail ?

thoughts ?

The ability to play pong in my web-based email app doesn’t really rate highly on that scale for me.