Google to Charge for Extended Gmail

Just as Jason Calacanis asked for the other day, apparently Gmail has decided to offer a pay service. A reasonable price seems to be $25 for 6.25 gigabytes of space, since that’s what Google is currently charging for their Picasa hosting service. This isn’t a bad idea, but it would be nice if they added some sort of Gmail file/attachment management utility as I previously mentioned. At least this is a first step in the right direction.