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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Xoopit adds pretty picture previews to Gmail


 
Xoopit is a new Firefox plugin that adds dynamic image previews to Gmail. It scans your email messages or images, videos, and links to media sites like YouTube, Flickr, Shutterfly and Picasaweb. The results are displayed above your Gmail window as a series of thumbnails.

The basic concept is that your email inbox is a more useful social networking tool than Facebook, MySpace, or other services, but web-based email clients generally don't present the same kind of tools for sorting through your rich media content that you can find on the other sites.

The Xoopit plugin is currently available for Firefox 1.5 and newer, and works with Gmail only. In the future, Xoopit plans to add support for Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, AOL Mail and other services. Xoopit is in private beta, but you can add your name to the waiting list for invitations.

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