The sky went black, the chats went grey Gmail went down an hour ago and looks like its not going to come up anytime fast.the world is suffering. The Guardian, another progressive company like ours, also uses Gmail and estimated that the loss of Gmail is costing the world economy $450m per hour. Its a big deal.

And there are rumours that Gmail won't be back up for another 3 hours or so...

But, how do we cope? Well, Carrentals blog is coping via Twitter all of our friends are on Twitter and we saw the story break. Why not follow us? Heres the link to our site CarrentalsUK and keep up to date with all the news and when #Gmail comes back up.

***Update: as of 12:30, Gmail is back up - phew!***

Have you been affected by the great Gmail blackout of 2009? Why not let us know by commenting?