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June 17, 2004
Cool kids, schmool kids
Remember what we said yesterday about being in with the cool kids? Well, along that train of thought, what died and left this gmail thing in control of the e-social universe? It seems that everyone we know is flashing their bright shiny invitations to the world's most elite secret society-slash-webmail client. Those Google folks are genius, no doubt about it. "I've got it!" says Mr. Google, "we'll make it 'not widely available' while we 'test' it, and by 'not widely available' we mean 'widely available by invitation to a pyramid scheme.' This thing will be so popular, it will be like the Google of webmail!"
Not that we don't want an invite.
Posted by The Twins at June 17, 2004 11:37 AM
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Crazy it is !!
Have you seen the lenghs people go to one.
http://andylyons.blogspot.com/2004/05/gmail-ok-this-is-tooo-scary-share-wife.html
But if you want an invite, just send me an email, I got 5 left to give away to those whose Blogs make me smile !!
Cheers
Andy
;-)
Posted by: Andy Lyons at June 17, 2004 07:59 PM
I dunno, I got an invitation to join Gmail because I used Blogger. As elite secret societies go, that seems pretty hoi polloi--like an elite secret society for Honda drivers or something.
At any rate, I signed up for a Gmail account, but it doesn't work with Safari, so I've never used it. I hear it's nice, though.
Posted by: Jess at June 18, 2004 12:05 AM
andy- aww, you're very sweet. Turns out I actually got an invite just hours after I wrote that-- and totally unrelated to the fact that I wrote it. so now I feel like I belong.
Jess- it is the most egregious example of demand hype I have ever seen-- competing with the CPK fiasco (and before anyone thinks I'm referring to California Pizza Kitchen, I suggest you think about it for a few more minutes.)
Posted by: EV at June 18, 2004 09:16 AM
um... what am i missing here? what is gmail?
Posted by: snowy at June 18, 2004 12:53 PM
Don't worry, snowy, I thought about it all morning and I still don't know what CPK is. Gmail is a new email service from Google, by the way, that is still in testing and apparently is being hyped.
Posted by: Jess at June 18, 2004 05:04 PM
Hee, I just got it. I should've read your June 18 post more carefully, huh?
That wasn't really a fiasco, though--people beat each other up for those things. New Coke, now _that_ was a fiasco.
Posted by: Jess at June 18, 2004 05:11 PM