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Joe Sims — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:41:19 +0000

Uh-huh… um, I’m going to go over there now… No, you stay here…

By: arbitraryaardvark

arbitraryaardvark — Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:58:42 +0000

people who blog at blogger get free gmail. wil wheaton is collecting gmails for the troops, which to me sounds like supporting striking hormel workers..misplaced good intentions.
i blogged earlier today [http://ballots.blogspot.com]that governments are not allknowing, allpowerful, or all good. neither is google, but with a corporate model of “don’t be evil”, a growing database of known stuff, a growing number of offshoots, it comes a lot closer than governments do. they can now wither away, as obsolete as the idea of the divine right of kings. google is doing its bit to bring on the singularity.
stellar evolution>biological evolution> cultural evolution> bio/machine interface evolution> the singularity.
it’s like the other end of a big bang.
it’s not god, but it’s pretty cool,and it’s within our lifetimes, unless one of us gets hit by a truck tomorrow.
once the singularity happens on one planet, the self-aware universe starts expanding at some fraction of the speed of light. sameer can explain this stuff more coherently than i can.
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By: Frank N - 'unwilling but yet subserviant bitch to the machine'

Frank N - 'unwilling but yet subserviant bitch to the machine' — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:48:56 +0000

Well someone was kind (and smart) enough to step up and invite Frank N.

Ms.Dani – Talk of revolution is treasonous, be careful young lady.

By: Lane

Lane — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:24:04 +0000

Seriously, JD, what browser were you using? Also, your point about your email software and hard drive already doing all these things doesn’t account for the obvious advantage gMail has – it is web-based, and thus accessible from my home computer, my work computer, my Mom’s computer, the library, the coffeehouse…

Anyway, just wanted to complain here that gMail has been sluggish this past hour and now seems to be down altogether. Sure it happens to Hotmail all the time, but gMail is all shiny and new!

By: Ms. Dani

Ms. Dani — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:06:44 +0000

Frank N – tyrannical leader of Monkey Butler society. Liberation for the monkey butlers!

By: Joe Sims

Joe Sims — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:04:33 +0000

Thanks to bryan, for being so generous with his gmail invites. I feel like a god among mere mortals, now that I have my very own gmail account…

By: Frank N - 'unwilling but subserviant bitch to the machine'

Frank N - 'unwilling but subserviant bitch to the machine' — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:50:24 +0000

Ok if I have to ask for one, then I’m not being invited. And let’s face it, someone of my stature should not have to ‘ask’ for an invite.

I’m going to lunch. You have about an hour….or I unleash the Monkey Butlers of Hell.

See no reason to ‘ask’ for an invite, just threaten monkey violence.

Now where should I go for lunch?

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:46:21 +0000

It’s not that very hard to get a GMail address. It took me about 30 mins to find someone who would send me an invite. Tip: go to the GMail Machine and then start talking/emailing to those who have donated invites before. They tend to have a lot to go around.

Of course, it helps to not just beg, but to offer something in return. Just be creative. There is a website that actually has created a barter system for invites.

In the end, it will evolve from Beta and then everyone will have one and then the big to-do shall be over. I mean, it’s just an email account. You don’t get paid for using it!

By: Sameer Parekh

Sameer Parekh — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:44:56 +0000

If you’re unhappy that you haven’t received an invitation yet, you can buy one on ebay for $1.00

By: Danno49

Danno49 — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:06:21 +0000

What browser, JD? Opera? Mozilla? Egad . . . dare I ask . . . AOSmell?

= ;)

By: Danno49

Danno49 — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:05:16 +0000

JD, I think that the appeal isn’t so much the features but the fact that it’s free. I’ve got gigs of space, too and so does just about everyone. But you have to pay for your space, bandwidth, e-mail program, etc. Here all you need is a web browser and you get 1GB of space. I have used a Yahoo account for years and gotten by with the paltry space they gave from the beginning. 6 meg I think it was. Imagine my surprise to logon one day last week and get . . . gasp! 100 MG! All free. How much you wanna bet the space gets used to store bigger attachments within e-mails? MP3 files and the like? That’s not what I’m planning on doing . . .;)

Yeah, I think it’s the fact that it’s virtually free, that’s the appeal IMO.

By: Joshua Claybourn's Domain

Joshua Claybourn's Domain — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:57:45 +0000

Gmail

Radley Balko is raving about Gmail, and rightly so. Many bloggers are raving about it, partly because they were given

By: JD

JD — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:56:44 +0000

Oh yes, and: “Gmail does not currently support your browser. See browser requirements for Gmail or sign in anyway.” “Browser requirements”? The only “browser requirement” there should be is “renders HTML”. Seeing as how Google has historically been really good about adhering to standards and being browser-agnostic, this looks like a step backwards.

By: JD

JD — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:53:42 +0000

Maybe I’m just not familiar enough with gmail, but I don’t get what’s supposed to be so great about it. From Google:

Search, don’t sort.
Use Google search to find the exact message you want, no matter when it was sent or received.
Don’t throw anything away.
1000 megabytes of free storage so you’ll never need to delete another message.
Keep it all in context.
Each message is grouped with all its replies and displayed as a conversation.
No pop-up ads. No untargeted banners.
You see only relevant text ads and links to related web pages of interest.

My email program already has a search facility, I have a hard drive bigger than 1GB, I’ve been able to thread my email for ages, and my email doesn’t have any ads. So the appeal is…? I dunno, the interface looks interesting, but I really don’t quite see what it buys you that any other (halfway-decent) email program doesn’t. (Maybe that’s the problem…everyone’s using crap?)

By: msc

msc — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:37:23 +0000

Bryan –
I want to feel like a snob too! Invite away??

By: bryan

bryan — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:24:55 +0000

Hmm. Well, after giving out my last two invites on tuesday… i wake up this morning and notice that 6 more area awaiting me. Woo Woo.

At current typing there are still 3 left… (hint hint nod nod)

the “offical” reason that the system isn’t open to the public yet is because it is still in beta testing. And… if it was free to all then there wouldn’t be this buzz about it. You only desire what you can’t have…

Unless you desire Simon and Garfunkel.

“Why don’t you write me…”

By: Danno49

Danno49 — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:12:59 +0000

My thanks to Adrienne for the invite. I feel like such an elitist snob. I’m also going to start acting like one. = ;)

These g-mail haters on the ‘g-mail is creepy’ site seem like nothing more than an off-shoot of the Penguinistas. Picture a lot of pimply-faced 30+ year-olds with nothing better to do than over analyze technology and post their concerns, some legit and most of them not. Who cares if they send you ads? Don’t use it for business, dumb asses or better yet . . . don’t use it at all. And to refuse my e-mail because I sent it from a gmail account is nothing more than thumbing your nose without a real reason. Get the hell over it.