Gmail & me
I lucked out tonight and managed to score a coveted GMail invite.
In case you’ve been living in a cave for the past few months, GMail is the new free webmail service from Google that changed the rules by offering 1GB in storage space.
The invites are hard to come by. The service is still in beta and normal registration has not yet started. GMail Swap, a new site dedicated to arranging trades for invites says “the only way to get an account is to be invited by a Google employee, by certain current Gmail subscribers, or by certain “active” users of Blogger.”
It pretty much means that unless you come across someone with invites and persuade them to give you one, you are out of luck.
The frenzy is mainly caused by the desire to secure a “good” address before they are all taken, but there is a lot of excitement over the features Google will bring to webmail.
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