Google chat
I have been reading about the integration of Gmail with Google Chat this week and this morning, when I was checking my email, a chat window pop up and I suddenly was chatting with a friend of mine from Boston. I was very surprised and I actually did not realize that it was actually a chat window within Gmail. It was pretty cool to chat with my friend unexpectedly but at the same time it was scary to realize that all my Gmail contacts had been automatically assigned as chat contacts and that my chat status was online by default. While this feature is cool, I think that Google is going a bit too far on how they push things to consumers without them even knowing it, this starts to raise all sort of questions and concerns about what else they are doing without your permission.
CD
