Get some time out of your Christmas shopping and New Year party planning and shoot a small video about your approach to Gmail. Then upload it to YouTube before December 31, 2007.

Gmail team will pick up some good entries and showcase them.Those who are ‘camera shy’, may email their stories to Google. Do you have any story to share? It’s time to tell Your Gmail Stories!

Gmail: Email from Google has introduced lots of exciting features. Despite of Gtalk: Instant Messenger from Google, Google has enhanced the chatting option that comes with Gmail.

Group Chat: Users can not talk to more than one friend in a single message window. There is a new Option in the Gmail Chat window now that allows users to add friends for Group Chatting.

Plenty of Emoticons: Certain keyboard combinations create different faces and symbols to convey specific emotions.

AIM: AOL Instant Messenger friend list can be integrated with Gmail Chat; Gmail users can talk to their AIM friends right inside the Gmail Chat.

Colored Labels: This feature is to set different colors to the Labels. A color swatch appears beside the Labels; users can pick a suitable color for each of the Labels so that they can be distinguished inside the Inbox.

As always, all the new Gmail features are listed under the “What’s new on Gmail?” section, take a look.

There was a time when people rarely used more than one computer and now people rarely use only one computer. Almost everybody access to Internet from different terminals and devices. The problem is, with a POP access, the changes made to emails from one device are not synced across the others. If an email is moved to starred folder from iPhone, the user will still see it in Inbox while accessing the email account from desktop.

Now IMAP is here to solve this problem. IMAP – Internet Message Access Protocol would update email information though out all the devices and changes made from one would be reflected in all. Gmail team has started rolling it from October 24, 2007. Find more information about IMAP and Gmail at Gmail: Help Center and Official Gmail blog.