Google has announced even more new features on top of the new Gmail design that will closely integrate its email service with Google+, its fledgling social network.

In a post on the official Gmail blog titled "Gmail and Contacts get better with Google+," Engineering Director Mark Striebeck laid out the more advanced entanglement of Google+ and Gmail. For example, whenever you open an email, you will see the sender's most recent post to Google+ on the right sidebar and will have the option to add that person to your Google+ circles. Read more