I'm a big fan of the Gmail Labs and have been religiously monitoring cool features that the Gmail Labs Team put out every now and then. I've tried activating some of those features including offline email viewing, task manager and more.  And now, Gmail has just announced another cool feature - previewing YouTube videos, Flickr and Picasa photos and Yelp links right inside Gmail items. 

Of course having these features enabled on your Gmail account saves you the trouble of visiting the links to view those videos, photos or links. Now you can immediately determine whether you should check those links or complete skip it and go on with your other tasks.
We built some new Gmail Labs features that do just that. For our first set, we picked stuff that often shows up in email: YouTube videos, Picasa and Flickr links, and Yelp reviews. Turn on Picasa previews from the Labs tab under Settings, and rather than having to click on a Picasa album link to see the photos it contains, you can see photos right in the message itself:

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