Thursday, April 2, 2009

Happy Birthday Gmail!

Happy Birthday Gmail!

You've changed my office life in ways you'd never know...
2004: Google unveils Gmail. It will change webmail ... and a few other things as well.

Five years ago, if we wanted to talk to somebody halfway around the world, we'd open up Outlook, Eudora or some other bulky piece of software on our desktops and type an e-mail.
Full article for all you geeks like me: Wired

Something related I just read, Google's forming a US$100 mill venture capital fund. Venture that huh. Start-ups during a recession. :) Only at Google.

Miner said on Monday that Google Ventures will look at a wide variety of companies to invest in, including consumer Internet products, information technology, health care and biotech, among other areas.

"Just as we were founded by entrepreneurs, we think we can help some of those next entrepreneurs with the next great idea," said Miner.

The full article here.

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