Gmail ready for prime time ?
by kurisu
Something weird happened last week on my gmail account. I suddenly got 50 (as in fifty) invites… Puzzled, I started to ask around if anybody else had the same experience, and it turns out that yes, pretty much everybody got a butt load of invites to give away… I guess it simply means that gmail is getting ready for prime time, and that the dev team wants to see how well it scales. I started to send invites, seeing the counter decrease… then I logged out for a few mins, and logged in again… only to find my counter was reset to 50 !
Will Google leave gmail as an “invite-only” system ? It makes sense in a way if you consider that you invite mostly people you know, and that invitees automatically get added to your address book. Then with that type of social network, you can do a lot of great things in terms of advertising and targetted services.
Are they trying to build a community ? Are they trying to build a user base large enough to launch another communication service, such as IM ?
February 7th, 2005 at 09:24 CET
I dont really get that gmail concept : you get a mail account, yeah, the string attached is that it comes with google ads , duh (I got that much).
But what happens if it gets spam ? Will Google put you in contact with Nigerian businessmen ? online Viagra pharmacies ? penis enhancer toyshops ? …
Any way if you’ve got too many invites, send me one. I might give it a try !
February 8th, 2005 at 08:15 CET
The ads are only relative to the message/conversation currently displayed in the interface.
Gmail comes with a rather efficient spam filter, that puts all the junk mail in a “spam” folder.
Therefore it doesn’t display any related ads to messages placed in that folder.
October 14th, 2005 at 00:16 CEST
Just a quick thought, keeping gmail as an invite only seems like it could help in keeping it from being abused by spammers.
Someone who is sending spam has to be invited, so they can’t sign up anonymously. And if they do get an invite from a friend, they can’t just create new accounts to send spam by inviting themselves because they’ll all link back.
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