Google’s GMail
Suddenly, I am hearing all sorts of rumors about this GMail. I originally read about it at Good Morning, Silicon Valley and immediately went to go check it out. Apparently, Google’s service will focus on archiving messages and then applying their search technology to it. The cost? Free. The space? 1000 megabytes. Yes, 1000 megabytes of email. My Hotmail account contains pretty typical sized collection of emails, and it has stored 317 messages in 930 kilobytes. Thus, 1000 megabytes would store around 340,860 email messages. For free! There has also been a rumor going around that this is an April Fool’s joke. A pretty good joke, if it is.
Speaking of, I still have some things to do for April Fools - let’s see if they work out! The best joke I have seen so far was the design trade between Mezzoblue and Stopdesign. A great commentary on the problematic design stealers that comb the web for designs they like and steal them. Oh, and I did not know plastic wrap on the toilet seat actually worked.
An interesting article about hard drive capacity states, “Now, new technology just about to enter production will boost desktop drives to about 2 terabytes — or 2,000 gigabytes — around 2010.” That is simply astounding, considering the Library of Congress is considered to be 20 terabytes.