I've been using Gmail for about a month. It's a damn good service, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to stick with Hotmail or Yahoo, other than the inconvenience of announcing an address change. I'm considering switching to Gmail as my main address, because I'm getting tired of managing my different accounts. I won't go into all the fine points of Gmail, but here's the short version:

- emails organized by threads instead of one long list
- good address book into which you can import CSV files
- keyboard shortcuts (unusual for Web-based email)
- 1 GB storage

Why am I telling you this? Because I have five Gmail invitations available for Candleblog readers or team members. Contact me at jonathanfine at gmail dot com. For a short time, these invitations were selling for a hundred bucks on eBay, which is stupid. Now they're everywhere, even though Gmail is still in beta and hasn't been released to the public yet.

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