Hi, Friends in my Last Post I wrote that we friends have started working on Flash in Mail Gmail Labs Tool.But its all in vein. Non-Googler is not allowed to contribute in to Labs developement. Here is the part of Conversation between LifeHacker and Gmail's Senior Product Manager Keith Coleman. NO WORRIES- we still love google.
Lifehacker: Right now some of the best/coolest Gmail functionality is coming from Google Labs. What's the future of Gmail Labs? Will Labs ever open up to non-Googlers?
Coleman: The goal of Labs is to bring the whole world into our (previously Googler-only) dogfooding process. We want engineers to be able to come up with crazy ideas and get them out to users as quickly as possible. We find this is a great way to uncover ideas that really work. We're launching both 20% projects and some more full-fledged projects there—so far 43 Labs in the 43 weeks since we introduced it—and you'll continue to see many new ideas there. And as of Monday, these will work in 49 languages for users around the world. (We were a bit hesitant to add the ~422 trillion additional permutations of the code this results in, but figured why not.)
The Labs architecture allows changes to literally every part of the Gmail code stack—from the storage server to the JavaScript—and requires compile-time integration, so it wouldn't be the right technical approach for non-Googler development. But we are interested in expanding the number of people who can contribute to this experimentation. In fact, one of the Labs, "Add any gadget by URL," is a small experiment with this. We also have a small, experimental Greasemonkey API.
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