Gmail is moving, fingers are fitter, YouTube goes centennial

With the help of Gmail Motion, we’ve been working faster than ever this week to build new products and celebrate a few existing ones. Here’s a roundup of our most recent efforts:

• Chromercise helps you increase your hands’ strength and dexterity while browsing the web
• YouTube celebrates its 100th anniversary with a flashback to its original homepage and a blog post by President Taft
• Body Browser lets you explore new anatomical terrain
• Look who’s going Google!
• Google Maps now features strange sightings around the world
• Docs Motion follows Gmail Motion into new gestural terrain
• Meow Me Now helps you find kittens near you
• We announce an exciting acquisition
• Seriously great typists may apply to be autocompleters
• gBlimps: the inevitable new ad platform
• New sessions added to Google I/O
• Fans of Mail Goggles should like the Voice-alyzer function in Google Voice
• New display advertising formats take marketers back to the good old days
• It was only a matter of time before Voice Search became available in this language
• ChromeLite is an even faster version of our browser you know and love
• After extensive user testing, we’ll soon be making Comic Sans the default font for all Google properties—get a preview on the search results page
• Travel through time and space to discover things from “then and now” with Google Teleport Search (in Chinese only)
• Tired of life on Earth? Learn more about a Moon loan
• Use Earkut to receive notifications when someone visits your Orkut profile
• A new look for our webmaster team members

It’s been a busy—and frankly, odd—day at Google, but with our finger sweatbands in place and our savvy email-writing moves, we’ll work faster than ever on new and exciting projects.

Update 4:06PM: Updated with additional announcements. - Ed.

Posted by Michael Krantz, Project Manager, Google Creative Lab