I'm Dr. Joshua Schwimmer, a nephrologist and internal medicine physician in New York City. • Kidney Notes was the first active nephrology blog. (Trivia: Kidney Notes is so old that the National Library of Medicine still uses it as an example of how to formally cite blogs.) • Professionally, you can find me at Kidney.nyc. • Kidney Notes is for educational purposes only, not medical advice. Consult qualified health care professionals. See disclaimer.

Monday, April 4, 2005

Gmail

Gmail, Google's free email service, has unexpectedly doubled their storage space to 2 gigabytes as a non-joke on April Fool's Day. (The first non-joke was when they announced the service last year on April 1st.)

I have too many invites. Feel free to email me if you want one.
  • Search, don't sort.
    Use Google search to find the exact message you want, no matter when it was sent or received.
  • Don't throw anything away.
    2060 megabytes (and counting) of free storage so you'll never need to delete another message.
  • Keep it all in context.
    Each message is grouped with all its replies and displayed as a conversation.
  • No pop-up ads. No untargeted banners.
    You see only relevant text ads and links to related web pages of interest.