Stephen Downes

Some of the most entertaining work on the internet these days is being done around Google's new GMail service. Give people a gigabyte of storage and an application interface and who knows what you can do! One person has turned his email account into a file server. Another person has turned his email account into blog authoring software. This discussion on Slashdot raises the question: does Google mind? Hard to say. But it's also hard to deny what's happening here as the web world unleashes its imagination. Google-based device drivers. Redundant Array of Inexpensive Google Accounts. The mind goggles.