GMAIL
(Sunday) On Thursday (no foolin') Google announced that they had been playing with a webmail system and that eventually they were going to give Yahoo and Hotmail a run for their money with 1 gb mailboxes (compared to Yahoo's 4 mb and Hotmail's 2 mb). On Friday they had a sign-in box on the gmail.com website. So now we're all waiting to see just when they open the doors. Even people who don't need another email account will want one just because it's Google doing it. (There are some really Google groupies out there.)

I'm guessing that they'll do a soft launch -- which is how they seem to do things. (They're still calling Google News a "beta.") And I'm further guessing that it will come some time early this week. And I hope so, so I can stop checking their website five times a day -- just to make sure I can get in there early enough to get a good address.