My brother hooked me up with a gmail account , and after using it for a while, gmail has offered me the chance to pass on accounts to my friends. So. Who wants one? Respond in the comments and it’s yours, first come, first serve. Why would you want one? First for geek cachet, a gmail account is all the rage in certain dorky circles these days. Second, if you get in early, you can secure your real name, I got david.hamilton@gmail.com for example, which will come in very handy with my impending move. It’s easy to remember. Also Google is trying a new metaphor for managing mail – instead of folders where you store email by category, it tries to build ‘threads’ out of related mail that’s most akin to some usenet reader interfaces. Apple’s mail.app also is capable of doing something similar, though so far Google’s seems a little better at correctly deriving what ‘thread’ a piece of mail belongs in. The interface is also pretty good, it’s got Google’s trademark simplicity, and it has some features that are rare in webmail clients, like address autocomplete and keyboard shortcuts. All in all, after a week or so I really like it, much better than Yahoo and more refined than speedymail.

Anyway, drop a comment and the gmail address of your dreams may be yours.