by Gavin O'Malley on Nov 2, 1:38 PM
You know it’s a slow news day when Web watchers are buzzing about Google’s latest Gmail redesign. In their defense, however, the changes have real implications for Google’s far-reaching social strategy. “Gmail joins Google Search, Maps, Docs, and Calendar as a handful of core Google search and messaging and collaboration products to be cleaned up,” reports
eWeek. “The redesign will help the programs hew more closely to the new Google+ social network, which [is] being threaded in varying degrees throughout Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Search and other Web services,” eWeek adds. Some analysts even suggest that the changes signal …