Sunday, February 28, 2010

Gmail Labs Graduation And Retirement

When talking about features in labs, 'graduation' is success, and 'retirement' is a flop. It is not necessarily failure, just a failure to garner significant interest. The features graduated are not standard; meaning you no longer have to turn them on. The features retired means that even if you are suing them now you will not be able to shortly.

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/gmail-labs-graduation-and-retirement.html

"A couple have already graduated from Labs and we've already retired one: Tasks was the first to become a regular part of Gmail, Right-side Labels was retired when we updated the way labels work, and Offline Gmail graduated a couple months back. Today, true to the original intent of Gmail Labs, we're graduating six more features and retiring five.

Graduating:
  1. Search Autocomplete
  2. Go To Label
  3. Forgotten Attachment Detector
  4. YouTube Previews
  5. Custom Label Colors
  6. Vacation Dates
Retiring:
  1. Muzzle
  2. Fixed Width Font
  3. Email Addict
  4. Location in Signature
  5. Random Signature

These decisions were made based based mainly on usage, taking feature polish and your feedback into account. We've also tweaked some of the graduating features to improve them before making them default Gmail features. For example, we've combined Go To Label with Search Autocomplete, making it easier than ever for you to find what you're looking for.
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