So, I got an invite to GMail last week, and was able to pick up maurice.reeves@gSendYourBloodySpamElsewheresMotherPusBucketMail.com.
I'm excited, because I wanted a GMail account since it went into Beta, and I love it. It doesn't feel like mail, but some fun hybrid between mail and IM. Frankly, I wish more mail operated in the same fashion as GMail. The notion is that there aren't folders, only categories of mail, and then you can label certain threads, so you can keep them in categories, but GMail handles the threading of messages, etc for you, and then you can search through your mail messages and find all of the messages containing what you're looking for.
The concept is called Conceptual Email, and it's the same model that was used in iTunes (another software I love) to help people manage their music collections. I think that at some point, this will be how we deal with all information on our computers, contextually, rather than a hierarchical system. Perhaps some hybrid for those who still want folders.
Anyway, before anyone asks, I don't have any invites to share, but if you do, and you have no one left to share them with, why not pass them along to Wil Wheaton, at his site GMail4Troops. GMail is ideal for soldiers overseas because it's a free service and it allows people to send attachments, but even more importantly, you can store up to 1Gb of data in a GMail account, which means it's ideal for sending out videos. It'd be nice to let soldiers overseas get to see more of their families. So, if you're in a giving mood, pass them along that way.
btw - In case you're oblivious, if you want to send mail to my GMail account, strip the "SendYourBloodySpamElsewheresMotherPusBucket" out of the address I listed above. :)
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