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It was interesting to me that you did finally hit on the word conversation [for "threads" in Gmail]. It seems to me that there's a synergy between the elements of the conversation in the RSS space and what you're doing in the e-mail space.

I think that's very true. Part of the things we've seen why blogs and RSS feeds are such a success is that you can actually read it--you don't have to stop, click back and forth, collect bits and pieces here and there--but it is all presented to you as one.

And that's what we've aimed for in the conversations as well, because I don't want to have to hunt and peck around to get the different pieces of the same conversation. I want to be able to see it all at once.

Steve Gillmor interviewing Google's Sergey Brin about Gmail.