{"id":37219,"date":"2012-04-12T19:51:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T19:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/google-also-piqued-viewer-interest-with-gmail\/"},"modified":"2012-04-12T19:51:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T19:51:25","slug":"google-also-piqued-viewer-interest-with-gmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/google-also-piqued-viewer-interest-with-gmail\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Google also piqued viewer interest with \u201cGmail Tap,\u201d a concept video that premiered this week with 2.4 million views, putting it in the No. 4 spot. The video explores an approach to typing emails on a touch screen that is so radically new it\u2019s old \u2014 almost 150, actually. Gmail Tap employs technology developed by Reed Morse, a descendant of telegraph inventor Samuel F.B. Morse, that uses Morse code\u2019s dots and dashes to input text. It may take time, though, for people to learn the code and become \u201cpower users\u201d \u2014 those who can type two emails at the same time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Dear Ad Age, it\u2019s April 12 now, so when presenting concept videos for new interfaces like Google Tap, it would be wise to communicate clearly that <em>it\u2019s an April Fool\u2019s joke.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adage.com\/article\/the-viral-video-chart\/google-sees-double-viral-video-chart\/234077\/?utm_source=digital_email&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=adage\">Google Sees Double on the Viral Video Chart | Viral Video Charts: Week\u2019s Top Brand-Driven Viral Ads &#8211; Advertising Age<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/slavin.tumblr.com\/\">slavin<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google also piqued viewer interest with \u201cGmail Tap,\u201d a concept video that premiered this week with 2.4 million views, putting it in the No. 4 spot. The video explores an approach to typing emails on a touch screen that is so radically new it\u2019s old \u2014 almost 150, actually. Gmail Tap employs technology developed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-37219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9Gj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}