Gmail Labs Gets Another Pair Of Features

Considering what it is - near-instantaneous communication between potentially distant people - email's pretty easy to use.  But Gmail Labs has just introduced two new features that have the potential to save folks some time and embarrassment.

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Online Shoppers Expect Better Service

While online shopping remains popular a new survey done by Harris Interactive for Tealeaf found that the majority (87%) of users conducting transactions on the Web have experienced problems.Among those who experience an online transaction issue, 41 percent would switch to an online or offline competitor or abandon the transaction completely.  This represents a $57 billion potential impact to revenue on shopping sites.

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Just Watch the Movies on IMDB

In what seems like an obvious move now that it has happened, Amazon's IMDB (Internet Movie Database) has added streaming videos to the site. Sure, they offered trailers before, but now we're talking full-length movies and television shows.

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YouTube Calls on Users to Build Help Center

A weekend post on the YouTube Blog is calling for users to make "informative, creative" videos to embed in the YouTube Help Center. Categories that users can make videos for include:

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MySpace Reveals Advertisers for MySpace Music

In my write-up about the upcoming MySpace Music the other day, I had to leave a question mark in the "advertisers" section, because it was unknown who would be advertising as MySpace Music launched. Rumor has it that MySpace Music will launch on Thursday the 18th, and MySpace has now let the advertising cats out of the bag. The company issued a release listing the…

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