At recent Google’s own event Campfire Gmail has announced Gmail contextual gadget are available, currently in labs for Gmail users and also announced to soon open Gmail contextual gadgets as a new extension point for developers. These gadgets will smartly fetch information from the web and based on the content of an email message users can perform relevant actions  without leaving the Gmail inbox.

Currently, one can see it in action by enabling the Gmail Contextual gadget in labs tabs under setting of all gmail accounts, theafter if anyone send you a youtube link or picassa album link you can see the preview of it right in gmail inbox unlike to earlier situation when one has to open new tab or new window to see videos or photos via those links in their email messages.

Gmail Contextual Gadget targets to some common problem of saving time when one has to open new tab/window while chatting and delayed replies to the person you are chatting because you are watching it in another window. Gmail thus brings contextual gadgets at present youtube videos, photos links and rating so you can see a preview of all these in your chat window or inbox’s email message.

However, the Gmail contextual gadgets are not limited to just these above examples the idea is to fetch information relevant to what in email messages. Appirio PSConnect (see demo) is one such experimental app that enables services professionals to run their business from their email inbox by connecting Google Apps and Salesforce CRM.

Google even invites for a good idea for this type of gadget and one can fill out this form for same.

Watch:Google Campfire One: Gmail Contextual Gadget