Even the initial forays into brainstorming for this article were full of irony, since I must admit to hearing about Google’s new Gmail free e-mail service through Google News and following up on my curiosity by doing a few searches on their site. How readily we become accustomed to simple tools, like the search engine and e-mail, which make our lives more efficient and enjoyable! Gmail’s main selling points are its titanic gigabyte worth of message storage, and unique organizational features that link related archived e-mails into “conversations”. (more…)