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Google Chat Can be in Your Gmail App Now

Kellen April 5, 2021 11

I'm still not sure that Google has acknowledged the imminent death of Hangouts and the sneaky availability of Google Chat in recent weeks, but the rollout of Chat to more users in more places continues. If you happen to be the most productive human on Earth...

Google Chat Gets UI Improvements on the Web

Kellen March 22, 2021 5

As Google Chat opens up to more people, Google is showing that it will try to improve it regularly. On March 24, for example, the web interface for Google Chat is getting visual improvements as well as several other feature tweaks. The visual enhancements can...

Google Chat Sure Seems to Be Going Live for People

Kellen March 1, 2021 23

About a month ago, the first signs of Google Chat opening up to the general population surfaced, with hints of a preview experience that would slow rollout Chat availability beyond the Google Workspace crowd. Over the weekend, that preview started going live,...

Hangouts Users May Soon Get Google Chat Beta Access

Kellen February 10, 2021 44

Google Hangouts is still alive and we're in 2021, if you can believe that. Google has yet to kill off the best messaging app it ever made, an app that was a feature tweak or two away from being the king. They will end its life soon, though, possibly by the end...

Thank You, Google, We Needed Another Messaging App

Kellen November 18, 2020 57

The big news out of Google today has to be their announcement of a new Google Pay experience that turns their payment platform into more than just a transactional space. Going forward, Google Pay will let you send and receive money, pay for goods in stores and...

You Can Now Schedule Meetings in Google Calendar Straight From Google Chat

Tim November 13, 2020 4

Google announced this week that users can now schedule meetings in Google Calendar straight from Google Chat, which should be clutch for all of the busy professionals that use that app. To take advantage of this, click on the new dedicated Calendar icon which...

Google Workspace is Here and That Means New Icons

Kellen October 6, 2020 12

Prepare yourselves, the icon set for all of your most used Google apps will soon change to a much more colorful design. There's actually a lot more to this story, but for most of you, that's the takeaway. The rest of the story is that Google has renamed G...

Gmail With Chat, Meet, Rooms Tabs is Rolling Out to G Suite

Kellen August 12, 2020 9

About a month ago, Google shared their vision for the future of Gmail, which showed an email experience filled with Chat, Meet, and Rooms tabs. The focus for this new bloated experience was to bring an all-in-one location for you to get all of your work done...