Get Your Children to Sleep to Gmail Stories

Once upon a time and they lived happily ever after exchanging emails and sharing photographs of themselves and their children, The End. That might be in short a Gmail story of Prince Charming and his beautiful Princess had it been written in modern times and there'd be no Pegasus or whatever means of transportation Prince of the Charming lineage might have used. Oh, and if love didn't always win the day, like it invariably does in children's stories. I wish I could one day tell my kid that the big fat lazy ogre that picked his nose while talking to others raised his axe and with a blow he separated the not-so-valiant Prince's head, and then he enslaved the maid Marian or whoever and she got to wash his dirty and only pair of pants and shirt every damn night until she died of old age.

But, that's not the story you will encounter with the initiative of the Gmail team, they want your real life stories to help them and keep them going like a similar story got them started. You do know that Gmail was an idea that came from an unsatisfied user of other companies' email service, don't you?

Now, Uncle Larry Page wants you! Let his team know how you use Gmail and how it helps you in your everyday life. Just grab a video camera and film yourself telling it (it appears that the "written on paper" version of the initiative would have hung as tapestry and it wasn't eco-friendly. Trees get snuffed out in the process, you know!)

Just keep the story in 30 seconds or less (what are you supposed to say in 30 seconds, Gmail, you rock! I love you and do a little interpretive dance?) and if creativity's your thing, don't shy away from it. Submit it by December 31st, and if you still have questions about this go to gmail.com/yourstory to find the answers.

And then you'll live happily ever after. And if not, at least that'll be your good deed for the day, making an engineer happy. Possible idea for a green campaign… Save the forest: plant a tree or make an engineer happy, so he'll do his job until paper will be extinct as a medium.