Recently, sometime in the last week, I noticed what the Gmail login box says: "Sign in to Gmail with your Google Account." I do not know if it previously just said 'login to Gmail' before and the archive.org record is blocked by their robots.txt. What I'm interested in is if it was always called my "google account." It is nice how the integration with my Google News alerts works via my Gmail...
Recently, sometime in the last week, I noticed what the Gmail login box says: "Sign in to Gmail with your Google Account." I do not know if it previously just said 'login to Gmail' before and the archive.org record is blocked by their robots.txt. What I'm interested in is if it was always called my "google account." It is nice how the integration with my Google News alerts works via my Gmail account, and how Google is slowly (or maybe quickly and out of site and of course very well planned) growing into an integrated portal for everything Google can do for me. Looking at this growth makes me think of growth stories like Craig's List and how it started as just an events mailing list between a small group of friends, how Go Ask Alice was originally just a service for students at Columbia University. General questions here, short on time, but what implications do the way things grow and the way sites or services like these start have on their success? More cases to look at?