Okay, this is getting too stupid. Even Tim O’Reilly seems to be sucked in by Google’s reality distortion field now. I guess they’ve been taking lessons from Steve Jobs, because Tim usually isn’t this easily excited by non-innovation. (Or maybe Tim was an early investor in Google? Anyone know?)

Gmail is fascinating to me as a watershed event in the evolution of the internet. In a brilliant Copernican stroke, gmail turns everything on its head, rejecting the personal computer as the center of the computing universe, instead recognizing that applications revolve around the network as the planets revolve around the Sun. But Google and gmail go even further, making the network itself disappear into the universal virtual computer, the internet as operating system.

For god’s sake, it’s web mail with a really big quota!

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