Truth behind Gmail invitation distribution revealed |
Robert Scoble attended the weekend’s exclusive yearly tech event Foo Camp and reported on the truth behind the distribution of Gmail invites: 
I met Chris Uhlik of Google. He’s the program manager of Gmail and the Google Toolbar and a few other things. He gave a talk at 11 p.m. to well after midnight. I asked him why they only give out a few Gmail accounts at a time. Remember, I thought it was sheer marketing genius. Turns out it wasn’t. Turns out they don’t have enough server capacity to deal with everyone who wants an account. So, when they buy a new server and get it installed they hand out another round of invites.
Imagine how many gigabytes are being gobbled? I do have a hint for them to help reduce their space: fix the 30 day trash compactor.
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go through a stupid searching game on that site, you can find the Gmail invitation links.
Comment by anche — October 9, 2004 @ 7:05 pm PST
It seems that more and more people are getting Gmail its starting to make me feel left out. One of my bf’s got Gmail and I wish he had given me an invite… we even run our own website together… Oh well.
Comment by baysideruelz — November 12, 2004 @ 7:09 pm PST
Hmm.. thanks for the info.
[anche:1] One of your bf’s? Hehe, how many do you have?
Comment by Louis — December 5, 2004 @ 8:44 pm PST