Yeah, a friend of mine works at google. He had 15 invitations to give away initially, but after finding tons of people who were interested he managed to get a lot more, around 50 I think.
I got the impression that they are going to 'scale up' - keep handing out invites throughout the beta process.
Wow, that was pretty slick on their part; Giving beta accounts to bloggers. They get a bunch of web-savvy types to test out their service, and get free grass-roots publicity to boot. And I'm guessing blogger users in general are more inclined to give positive reviews, since it is google, after all.
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Yeah, a friend of mine works at google. He had 15 invitations to give away initially, but after finding tons of people who were interested he managed to get a lot more, around 50 I think. I got the impression that they are going to 'scale up' - keep handing out invites throughout the beta process.
Wow, that was pretty slick on their part; Giving beta accounts to bloggers. They get a bunch of web-savvy types to test out their service, and get free grass-roots publicity to boot. And I'm guessing blogger users in general are more inclined to give positive reviews, since it is google, after all.