You can now (or soon will be able to) add pictures to your Gmail Contacts.
Gmail chat can now play sounds when a chat message arrives, provided you have Flash installed. This is a welcome addition, since I commonly Alt-Tab over to Gmail to discover that someone sent me a message three hours ago. (Via GoogleBlog and Lifehacker)

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1 Gmail Chat Fun // May 23, 2007 at 3:39 am
[...] Previously, we’ve covered bold, italics, and special characters (like ♫). We also noted that Google added an incoming-chat sound and the ability to add a picture to a Gmail [...]
2 smiley lover // Aug 23, 2009 at 11:48 am
I don’t know how to do the little sun music note or heart in bold but that’s ok gmail team take your time.
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