Clay Wood, an alumni from Eta Kappa Nu, was cool enough to hook me (and a bunch of other Michigan EECS kids) up with invitations to Google’s new (and controversial) “GMail” service.
As an experiment, I’ll be forwarding all my mail there and be using it as my primary email client. I’ll blog about my experience for those people that haven’t been lucky enough to get an account. Note the new “GMail” category on the right.
So far, it looks very cool.
Tags: cool-tech, gmail, web-culture, web-design
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April 19, 2004 at 9:06 pm
Arthur
I’ve seen a few screenshots from Jeff Heer, who’s also a beta tester. It looks pretty slick from what I’ve seen. Makes me realize how Outlook could really improve on the email experience. Don’t even get me started about Lotus Notes…
There’s been quite a bit of noise over the privacy of GMail as well. Here’s an article on O’Reilly. It’s a little lengthy but a good read if you’re interested in GMail.
April 19, 2004 at 9:13 pm
Chris
I’ve been taking plenty of screenshots and I plan on doing some more lengthy writeups once I get past the end of term crunch.
April 24, 2004 at 3:03 pm
ashwin
how to login to beta gmail
April 24, 2004 at 8:21 pm
Chris
Ashwin - You don’t. It’s currently in demo, and you have to get an invite from an employee.