Gmail is an great email service but there is always something to improve. Google knows this and therefore today announced a new feature pro service, called People widget. She is a dynamic information box that sits on the right sidebar of the message and shows details about the person who sent it, as the latest posts, and other shared documents.
These characteristics are quite similar to the add-on for browsers called Rapportive, which originally appeared in 2010, and the add-on for Outlook called Xobni, which is basically the same thing. So similar that I do not doubt that may have served as inspiration for Google to create the People widget.
The People widget also includes a feature that is already active since 2007 but has yet to win the official client, Google Talk: group chats. With it you can talk to several people (Google does not say exactly how many) and possibly even talk to them on video.
As with all new features, Google does not push a button and it magically appears for all. The People widget will be activated gradually to all Gmail users over the next two weeks.
Update at 17:09 | Contrary to what we said before, the functionality of the chat group has existed since 2007, it will only be facilitated with the People widget. The text of the article was amended to reflect this information.
