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Paul Buchheit built the first version of Gmail in one day. Then, he built the first prototype of Google’s contextual advertising service, Adsense, in one day as well. Now, he’s working on a much-watched startup called FriendFeed that he believes just brought to market the next big form of communication online: flowing, multi-person, real-time conversations.

“The open, realtime discussions that occur on FriendFeed,” he says, “are going to become a major new communication medium on the same level as email, IM and blogging.” That’s a pretty ambitious claim, but Buchheit has the credibility to make it.

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When Paul Buchheit was in college in the mid to late 90’s, he spent time working at both Microsoft and Sun. He classifies Microsoft as being in the “Religious Institutions Industry” on his LinkedIn profile, which is pretty funny. After graduating, he joined Intel for a year and then became the 23rd employee at Google (at the age of 23). He joined Google just 3 months after the company moved out of the garage of someone’s house and he stayed there for ...