A few months ago I switched from gmail to google apps for personal email and subsequently also moved over a few of my family members. Little did I know that these family members have been secretly working on new cool gmail features as part of Google’s “Labs” effort.
Take a look at what appears at the bottom of my google apps email settings page 
And joining the “Bar-Cohen Family Mail team” has many benefits:
The team
We work on lots of different things: making email better, faster, and more fun, and developing new ways for users to share and communicate with each other. We take on hard computer science problems — like making large amounts of Javascript run insanely fast on different browsers, storing and scaling petabytes of data, and ridding the world of spam. And Gmail is like a start up inside Google. You can build and ship new stuff quickly, and enjoy all the great benefits Google is known for.
Gotta love it !
Well, its impressive that your family has been chosen for beta testing by Google’s gmail. What are the benefits you’ve found?
@John –
this post was tongue & cheek
everyone using gmail and google apps has these features — just turn on “labs” under settings.