Gmail

Gmail, the first free webmail service that give their user a big quota as much as 1 GB was an incredible systems. I have my own gmail accounts and it was fast, reliable, and full of feature just as any other free webmail service, but it also has some incompatibility issues such as browsers supports. Gmail is recommending their users to use spesific browsers to login into their mail systems, and if you don't, some of the functionality is missing. For now, the best browser that is supported by Gmail is Mozilla family, including Mozilla Firefox, that is my default browser at home.

Gmail is not an ordinary free webmail service. You can't just signup and register your new user from their site, but you must be invited by another Gmail account or by Gmail system itself. Until now, i have invite 6 people, and i still have 5 more. (i got another quota today). I'm still wondering how does the Gmail system add invitation capability to their user acount, since there are no description about how users can achive ability to invite their friends.

Well anyway.. Gmail has made a tremendous movement among other free webmail since it's first public release. Yahoo! Mail for example, they updated their user's quota from 4 MB to 100MB. Another example is Hotmail, which upgrade their quota into 250 MB from the original 2 MB, even though not every users gets the impact (including me). Another 1 GB email service is rising, such as Walla.

Google is a big player on the Internet. Google has dominated in search engine technology and placed Yahoo! in the second place since it's debut. In the future, i hope that there will be another Google's service, such as IM (Instant Messenger) and Mailing list service. We will see in the next year probably :)