Create Your very own Gmail.

Each item can be commented on liked or taken into a private email or chat conversation. Later we added chat and then video chat both built right in so people had choices about how to communicate from a single browser window.

Until now Gmail has been primarily an email and instant messaging product. You end up getting comment strings around a single.

Today Google announced an enhancement to Gmail called Google Buzz which increases social networking capabilities and cheeses off Yahoo. Now Google is taking aim at Facebooks and Twitters social tools apparently gearing up to turn Gmail into a hub for keeping track of friends. Below your inbox there will be a tab for Buzz allowing you to read status updates photos and video.

Same can be applied here in some sense as the Google Buzz service is rolled out slowly but surely to Gmail accounts worldwide without a single cent. It adds the power of asymmetric following to Gmails interface.

Five years ago Gmail was just email. The 40 people you converse with the most in Gmail and Gchat are. At an event at company headquarters today Google announced Google Buzz a new Twitterstyle status update system for the email service.

Can a microblogging twist on Gmail raise Googles profile in social networking Well soon find out. Just what is Google Buzz all about Head on after the jump for more details.

Social networks get all the attention but email remains an important information console for many. Buzz facilitates the instantaneous sharing of info like status updates links and videos between Gmail users in a setup that will likely look fairly familiar to users of. Today communication on the web has evolved beyond email.

The main way of accessing Google Buzz will be through Gmail.

Google announced a new product today called Google Buzz bringing credence to previous rumors that social networking features would be.

Google has linked Gmail to a new service it calls Google Buzz.

It presents them all in a single stream from everyone you follow from you Gmail contacts. Thats why the introduction of Google Buzz is so noteworthy.

Gmail is a free, advertising-supported Webmail, POP3, and IMAP service provided by Google. In the United Kingdom and Germany it is officially called Google Mail.

Gmail was launched as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and it became available to the general public on February 7, 2007, though still with beta status. As of July 2009, it has 146 million users monthly. The service was upgraded from beta status on July 7, 2009, along with the rest of the Google Apps suite.

With an initial storage capacity offer of 1 GB per user, Gmail significantly increased the Webmail standard for free storage from the 2 to 4MB its competitors offered at that time.

Gmail has a search-oriented interface and a “conversation view” similar to an Internet forum. Software developers know Gmail for its pioneering use of the Ajax programming technique.

Gmail runs on Google Servlet Engine and Google GFE/1.3 on Linux.

<