Google’s Gmail has increased the number of invitations I can give away to 100. It’s not very often that I even gave away any of the 50 I had available before. Do you want a Gmail account? Comment here.
Google’s Instant Message Software
As I predicted, it looks like Google is about to release it’s own instant messenger program. Look for the announcement tomorrow. Of course I could just be jumping on the rumour bandwagon.
I predict you’ll be able to get it at http://talk.google.com/.
Update: I was right! and it’s online now.
BetterSearch – A Firefox Extension For Enhancing Search Engines
I installed the Better Search extention last night and already I know I’ll never go back.
Previously I Heart Firefox.
Gmail Accounts
I’ve got a few invitations for Gmail. If anyone is interested, leave a comment.
Google Desktop Search
I noticed Google has a link to its new Google Desktop Search software on their page today. I’m strongly thinking about downloading this, but before I do I’m wondering if it’s really worth it. I realize Google is very good about having uninstalls and whatnot but nevertheless I’m hoping someone that has tried it will write a comment here and say whether or not they like it.
Update: I’ve installed Google Desktop and I LOVE it. I don’t know how I found anything on my computer without it. Actually most of the time I had a hard time finding stuff…
Gmail Invites
I noticed the other day that I have 5 more gmail invitations to give away. Instead of holding a contest I am going to give them to friends that would like them. So if you mentioned to me recently that you are looking for an invitation, or if you never mentioned it but now realize how good gmail is, please let me know.
Gmail Invitations Being "Eaten" By Hotmail and Yahoo
Hotmail and Yahoo are sending Gmail invitations to the trash. I’m wondering how many of my invites are actually making it to their destination because I have many unanswered invitations out there.
There is a way around it though. If an invitation you have sent is diverted by the Hotmail Spam Gods, then you can go into your Gmail Sent folder and forward the message back to the recipient. I just wish there was a way to view all of the “unanswered” invitations so I could either resend them, or send them to someone that is actually interested in having Gmail.
Link to Me and Get a Gmail Invitation
Have a blog? Want a Gmail invitation? I will send you one if you link your blog to me. Then just comment under this post with your name, the email address that you use now, and your blog address. I’ll be sending them out tomorrow.
Jeff Milner’s Free Gmail Account Giveaway – The Rules!
It’s another new round of Gmail invites. This time I have a total of 5 accounts to give out. The contest ends Thursday night at Midnight 10pm MST (I’m excited to give these away and don’t want to wait until Friday) with prizes to be awarded on Friday Thursday night or Friday morning.
There are a few relatively easy things you have to do in order to win a Gmail invite from me. You don’t have to do them all, but the more of them you do, the more points you get, and the people with the most points get invites.
#1 – Post a comment explaining that you would like a free Gmail account and why you think I should give it to you. (Worth between 1-25 points at my discretion)
#2 – Include your first and last name in the comment. I’m no longer going to make up first and last names for people I am sending the accounts to. Also it’s manditory to include your current email address. If you want you can include the word “at” for “@” or the word nospam, which (don’t worry) I am smart enough to figure out and send the invite to the right address.
(Worth 200 points)
#3 – Be a Blogger account holder at the time you post your comment. (Worth 15 points)
#4 – Have a blog. (Worth 5 points)
#5 – Post a link on your blog to my blog. Permanent sidebar links are worth more. You may get double points on this if you post a link in addition to having a permanent link.
(Single posts are worth 20, Permanent links 50, up to a total of 70 points!)
#6 – Compose a limerick about me, my site, things I’m interested in, or Gmail. (10 – 50 points)
The person with the most points who posts before 12:00pm10:00pm MST(as recorded in the comments) will get the first invite, and the person with the second highest score will get the next one and so on until I am out of account invites.
Update June 17, 2004: The contest is now closed. Please try again next time. I haven’t added up the scores but I will do that shortly and have the results in my next post.
Jeff Milner’s Gmail Account Giveaway!
I’ve given away all of this round’s Gmail invites. This time I only had 3 people post comments so I gave all 3 accounts to them. Don’t worry if you are just learning about my contest now, there will be another one as soon as I get some more invites. It’s also more like begging than a contest — so it’s not that hard. Also you could continue to beg in the comments of this post because I know for a fact that Anna-Maria and a few other of my friends have invites and most likely no one to give them too – it’s a shame when invites go to waste. They read this site often, so you could try. No guarantees of course. Oh and in the future all posts asking for Gmail accounts must include a first and last name.
Update June 16, 2004: Actually the next round of Jeff Milner’s Gmail Account Giveaway will be more like a contest than begging. Though begging helps. Just to give you a taste of things to come – having a blog helps, and it’s going to involve poetry.