Gmail adds location-aware signatures
Wed, Feb 11th, 2009 |
Google must be on a location-aware kick this month. Just a week after the search firm released its Latitude mobile device friend-tracker, Google Labs has a new tool that lets Gmail automatically include your location in an e-mail's signature.
"Sometime ago, I noticed how all mail systems tell you when an email was written, but not where it was sent from," said Marco Bonechi, the author of the tool on Gmail's blog. "Because I love to travel, the first question in many messages I receive is 'where are you?' and by the time I answer I am often somewhere else."
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exciting feature by google once again , this really help us a lot …i would still wait and watch to see what others comment on this .
Phil Miranda here…The Google signature option will be interesting to see how this will open up a whole other can of worms…JMHO
Phil Miranda