I have been using my Gmail account for about six weeks now. I like it a lot. I would go as far as saying that it is so overwhelmingly better than any of the other free (or otherwise) webmail systems out there in their present form. OddPost (which isn’t free, and is no longer accepting new signups) might be close, but it is not cross-platform.
This week’s PCM got the local top dogs of the three big portals (MSN, Yahoo and Sina) together to talk about Gmail. They either didn’t get it, or were just downplaying the advantages of Gmail while lauding their own pathetic marketing moves.
Once one gets to use and know more about Gmail, one would realize that the 1G of space is definitely not the killer feature, althou one would agree that it’s good marketing talk. The killer feature is in the UI, and Gmail would be nearly just as valuable if they offer 500M or 2G of space.
MSN, Yahoo and Sina are at a major disadvantage when it comes to offering tons of space in their free webmail services. Thanks to the Google Filing System, the Google cluster is more reliable and costs a lot less to setup, run and maintain.
I noticed this morning that I had an Gmail invitation to give out. James expressed interest when I first got mine, so I gave it to him, and then I got 5 more invitations. Send me email if you want one.
11 responses so far ↓
1 Eman // Sep 1, 2004 at 4:10 pm
Hi there,
I like to try Gmail as well. Can you send me an
invitation as well? Thanks so much!
Eman
emanwong@email.com
2 Eric // Nov 4, 2004 at 11:19 pm
hi,
Would you mind please send me one Gmail invitation letter ?
My address is stngai@sinaman.com
Thanks a lot !!!
3 Eric // Nov 4, 2004 at 11:19 pm
hi,
Would you mind please send me one Gmail invitation letter ?
My address is stngai@sinaman.com
Thanks a lot !!!
4 Eric // Nov 4, 2004 at 11:19 pm
hi,
Would you mind please send me one Gmail invitation letter ?
My address is stngai@sinaman.com
Thanks a lot !!!
5 mdgar // Nov 23, 2004 at 9:13 pm
I would like Gmail invitation
mdgar@atlas.cz
thanks a lot
6 Yasser // Dec 3, 2004 at 9:37 pm
Would u like please send me a gmail invitation
7 thaone // Dec 12, 2004 at 7:04 am
hi can u plzzzzzz send me a gmail invitation?
tnx
8 sarwer // Jan 28, 2005 at 3:38 am
I also need an invitation letter
9 Irenne // Feb 23, 2005 at 3:52 pm
Would you please send me an invitation letter too?
Thank you very much!
10 Tony // Mar 3, 2005 at 9:10 pm
I need an invitation letter. Pls send it to me.
thx.
11 Mel // Aug 15, 2005 at 3:27 pm
Could you send me an invitation letter to me, i really want to creat one account too, thank’sssssssssssssssssss