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Gmail promotions tab improves for marketers

The official Gmail blog announced today that they’re testing a new way of displaying emails in the Promotions tab. This display method will show users a featured image instead of the normal subject line.
Email marketers that want to take advantage of this should visit the Gmail developers pages for information on how to set a featured image for Gmail.
More innovation from Gmail in the mailbox. This one feels pretty consumer friendly, although I still have memories of XXX spam from years ago showing rather explicit images. Gmail must have a lot of confidence in their filtering to push image display to the inbox.

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Limited email at gmail

Mike Monteiro has a screenshot of what happens when you actually fill up a gmail inbox.
How much of that mail is spam, I wonder?
HT: Laughing Squid

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Is gmail next?

I’m hearing hints that there are some malware or phishing links being sent out to gmail address books, “from” those gmail addresses. If that is what’s happening then it’s much the same thing as has been happening at Yahoo for a while, and AOL more recently, and that triggered their deployment of DMARC p=reject records.
It’s going to be interesting to see what happens over the next few days.
I’ve not seen any analysis of how the compromises happened at Yahoo and AOL – do they share a server-side (XSS?) security flaw, or is this a client-side compromise that affects many end users, and is just being targeted at freemail providers one at a time?
Does anyone have any technical details that go any deeper than #AOLHacked and #gmailhacked?

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