I’m all out, but go here: http://isnoop.net/gmailomatic.php. They’ve given out 47,775 (and counting) Gmail invites since September 13, 2004.
Also, if you have Gmail invites to pass out, the process is fully automated from that site.
Learn about Gmail here: http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/about.html
First come first served:
[gone] Gmail Invite #1
[gone] Gmail Invite #2
[gone] Gmail Invite #3
[gone] Gmail Invite #4
If one of them is taken, then just try the next one. If you sign up, please post a comment just to let me know if people are using the invites.
Thanks and enjoy!
This new travel search page searches Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, and similar sites, and directly searches airline company websites and foreign carriers. At this time you can’t search based on departure time but those are easily found by clicking on details and going to the airlines site directly (which Mobissimo links to directly).
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Good thing we’ve been using Mozilla Firefox. Tabbed browsing is best. It is faster and open source.
That’s right. Just be the first person to leave a comment here (remember to include your email address) and I’ll send you a free gmail invite. I actually have 2 invites left (depending on if I can think of any friends that would want it), so there might be two invites available to the first two commenters. If you “win” please remember that Gmail is still beta, so any comments that you send Google will help greatly.
If you already have a Gmail account, please let someone else get one. Thanks.
Scott
[EDIT] I’m getting them in bunches of 6 now so I have a few more invites left. 6/21/2004[/EDIT]
6/23/2004 No invites left!
Since I am all out, more invites are available here: http://gmail4u.blogspot.com/ and here http://www.gmailswap.com/
This must be a mistake, but I just logged on to check my Gmail and it said that I was currently using 15 MB (0%) out of 1000000 MB!! Everyone quick check and see if it is not just me.
Here’s the obligatory undoctored (just resized and compressed) screenshot:Gmail offers 1 TB screenshot
EDIT: This just in: Turns out that the one terabyte was a glitch. Most user accounts are back down to a puny 1 GB ;-). Though, it does appear that some Google employees still have the one terabyte of space. But either way, I’m just glad that I have documentation that I also once had one terabyte.
Here’s the News.com link with a discussion board on the bottom.
Source; Another (longer) source (w/ interview)
The family of Professor Edward Kasner, the man who came up with the word “googol,” a term used to describe 10 raised to the 100th power, in a 1940 book, is thinking of suing Google if not given the opportunity to have insider access to Google’s IPO. “His relatives claim that he is spinning is his grave.” “She said that although Google has bought attention to the name, it has not bought attention to KasnerÂ’s work. Google was not using the concepts, but just capitalising on the name.”
From Slashdot post:
“Why can you even sue over this? If it’s a mathmatical [sic] concept it should be public domain. It’s the equivilent [sic] of suing someone over using the word dozen. You can’t trademark a quantity can you??”
I personally think that Google’s acknowledgement of the history behind the word “googol” is enough. Googol isn’t even trademarked. And, as the link with the interview says, there is really no legal case that Edward Kasner’s family can bring against Google. They are just hoping to cash in on the hard work of others…
Someone on Slashdot mentioned that a similar court case would be for Parker Brothers to sue Microsoft over the word “Monopoly.”
Check it out. Blogger has a sweet new look. It even now includes its own commenting ability. But I think the best feature is the improved style and layout of their site. One of the coolest features is that, even while in the middle of typing this, I can click “Preview” or push ctrl+shift+p and I will instantly get a view of how the post will actually look. Very cool. There is also a new thing called “post pages” where a separate html page is created for each post. This allows the comments to be included underneath the post but not clutter the main index page. It will also make linking to individual posts much easier and should help Google in indexing my page. But it’s getting late, so good night!
As you can see, I’ve drastically updated the template for the layout of this site. I used a template generator from this site http://www.erisfree.com/d2/apart.php. You can create templates for not only Blogger, but also many other blogging programs. There is also the ability to skin this site with 3 different styles. Click the link and the site will automatically change to that style. I had saved my pervious template just in case something would happen, but I like this new layout so much better than I’m going to fully switch over to it. What do you think of the new design?
It is interesting that people are bidding upwards of $150 for a Gmail invite while it is still beta.
Last week when I checked, there were no gmail invites being sold on Ebay. I almost wish that I had sold one of my invites and walked away with a cool $150 (or more because I would have been the only one). Don’t you think that selling Gmail invites is sort of cheating Google though? I mean, they gave you those invites for free. They could have just as easily auctioned off their own invites and made a killing.