//pburgess.net

From cnet.com…
Gmail users can now select multiple attachments and add them simultaneously to an e-mail message. The new system simply opens your operating system’s file explorer, and supports selecting of multiple files at once. Best of all, it includes a status bar for each file as it uploads (just like Flickr’s Flash uploader does) to let you know how far along each file is. This can be comforting if you’re adding a file that’s close to Gmail’s 20MB attachment limit, since you can see something other than a spinning loading icon. It also warns you if you’re over the size limit before the files start moving, which is a nice touch.
More>>
pburgess says: I wondered what would win. Google’s don’t email, share [using Google Docs! Or the ability to quickly attach lots of docs to an email. Fundamentally the Google approach is correct. Why not share your docs with whom you wish, emailing links etc and have the web server present accurate representations of the doc which is only downloaded if really required. It saves an awful lot of bandwidth particular in a school or other corporate context.

Related articles by Zemanta

• Gmail gets multi-attachment uploading (news.cnet.com)
• Gmail Labs: The great and the small (news.cnet.com)
• How To Get More Out of Google Docs (tc.eserver.org)
• Dashboard shows customers Google Apps' health (news.cnet.com)
• Google's GDrive - innovative or invasive? (en.onsoftware.com)
• Gmail gets a proper PDF viewer (news.cnet.com)
• Take a peek at the Google Drive (macworld.com)