Cool Integration between GMail and Google Calendar

Well, I am not sure whether this has always existed but I just noticed it a couple of days back.

I was exchanging a couple of e-mails with one of my friends (via GMail / Google Mail) about meeting someplace for lunch and I noticed these links on the top-right hand corner to “add a meeting” to Google Calendar (see image below).

google email and calendar links

I clicked on one of those links, and it opened up Google Calendar with an appointment (to be created) that was exactly what I wanted – it was just unbelievable that Google had automatically parsed all this information from the e-mail exchanges (see image below).

Google Calendar appointment

I am a big fan of good integration and usability – and the way this integration worked so flawlessly was very refreshing ! So, what is next ? Google automatically figures out the location (I had just mentioned Karlsplatz with no mention of the city) from the IPs (of the sender and the receiver) and recommends a few restaurants !!

Is that too cool or too much invasion of privacy ? Or is it a bit of both 🙂