The craze started with a steaming pile of….well, you get the idea.
Now, Gmail is adding tons and tons more emoticons into the mix.
A new feature, called Extra Emoji, adds a slew of new emoticons that you can include in Gmail messages.  In Japanese, “Emoji” means “emoticons” and they are insanely popular there.
“All of these extra [...]

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The end of the year is fast approaching, which means it’s just about time for all those ‘countdowns’, ‘top ten’, and ‘best of’ lists for the year. Gmail just put a nice one up on their blog, recapping all of the neat stuff that they have been doing over in the labs lately.
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First it was GMail Goggles, sort of a sobriety test for e-mail, then they revamped GMail for mobile, now we have the all new GMail emoticons.
No more will you have to settle for a ;) when you can have a. Out with the “XOXO” and in with the. And of course, when the bad news [...]

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