The competition on the "free" market leads to price wars or quality high end positioning to convince customers they should buy/pay more for your product. But when it comes to a free and online service, the battle is taken somewhere else. For email specifically, it's storage limit.

When Gmail entered the market, the guys at Google took our eyes with incredibly large storage space. Yahoo reacted instantly by increasing it's limit a bit, while Hotmail had a very, very slow reaction.

At this time though, Google keeps increasing its limits, yet it is its turn to have a slow reaction. Hotmail offspring Windows Live Hotmail is at 5 GB and Yahoo is claiming to be offering unlimited storage, while Gmail is still at about 2,9 GB.

Via Slashdot

Have you heard of Big String? It is web-based email account provider. What makes it so special? Well it offers 1 GB of storage, that is not a first. It allows you to send/receive emails, it's not like they've invented the wheel!

But! Yes, there is a but here. You can take your emails back whenever you want to! Yes, people, just like small children who pick up their toys and leave when their upset. You can track your emails and know how many times they've been opened. You can create emails that will self destruct in 30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes :D

Using this service to play with emails can actually be quite fun. Silviana told me about it and I got an account instantly. Oh, and since it is a pretty new service on the market, I could select alina@bigstring.com. That is a first, I must say!