{"id":1986,"date":"2007-12-04T08:48:13","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T13:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/04\/gmail-colours-is-this-really-news\/"},"modified":"2007-12-04T08:48:13","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T13:48:13","slug":"gmail-colours-is-this-really-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/04\/gmail-colours-is-this-really-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail colours: Is this really news?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that pretty much anything Google does is worthy of comment &#8212; and not just a little comment, but a ton of comment &#8212; but isn&#8217;t all the hubbub about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techmeme.com\/071203\/p144#a071203p144\">coloured Gmail tags<\/a> just a little over the top? I mean, I&#8217;m a big fan of Google and of Gmail, but still. Adding coloured tags? I know that Fred Oliveira thinks it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.webreakstuff.com\/2007\/12\/colored-labels-and-visual-cues\/\">a big deal<\/a>, and MG Siegler at ParisLemon seems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parislemon.com\/2007\/12\/gmail-getting-colored-labels.html\">similarly excited<\/a>, but still. Colour me unimpressed. What&#8217;s next &#8212; a storm of blog posts when Digg decides to change the shape of its buttons to a modified trapezoid instead of an oblate spheroid?<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that pretty much anything Google does is worthy of comment &#8212; and not just a little comment, but a ton of comment &#8212; but isn&#8217;t all the hubbub about coloured Gmail tags just a little over the top? I mean, I&#8217;m a big fan of Google and of Gmail, but still. Adding coloured &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/04\/gmail-colours-is-this-really-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gmail colours: Is this really news?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}