The Great Email Schism: From Gmail’s New Doodads To Chris Anderson’s Messaging Manifesto

Do you really need–or want–“contextual information about people you’re interacting with” via email? As part of Google ‘s new social spree that just gave field testers Google+ , Google’s also added a new social feature to Gmail–the People Tab . It’s a panel to the right of your Gmail inbox that displays “contextual information about people you’re interacting with in Gmail” because “the people you communicate with” are as important as “what you’re communicating about.” To some, it will amount to another doodad on the already cluttered dashboard.

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The Great Email Schism: From Gmail’s New Doodads To Chris Anderson’s Messaging Manifesto