Gmail Labs, PDFs, Feedburner, and Yahoo

Gmail Labs was introduced last week with a lot of commotion. Experimental features are available for testing through the Settings tab in Gmail. The features may or not make it permanently into Gmail, but some of them are useful. Including new starring features and hiding Unread counts, this labs feature promises to help Gmail faster. For my suggestion, see my last post.

Google Docs introduced the ability to upload PDFs to your Docs account. The size is limited to 10 MB from your local computer and 2 MB from the web. They are stored with the rest of your documents or you can look at them all separately. The viewer has limited functionality, but it includes searching the text and the ability to share the document online. The viewer used here is the same as seen with Google Book Search and Google Patent Search.

Google is continuing their integration with Feedburner. They have started a new domain at feedburner.google.com. They must be close to merging Google Accounts with this service as well. The login is available, but is not valid. Most users speculate that Feedburner's current domain will be phased out and moved to the Google domain for tighter integration with Google products.

Yahoo announced a non-exclusive agreement with Google today for search and ads. Not much else to say here except that this was long overdue. Also, I am looking forward to the integration of Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk (Google Talk's lack of updates is another hot topic issue with me).