Peter's Blog 2.9.2004

del.icio.us

Latest discovery is this awkwardly named site. It's a stream of interesting links recently submitted by people. I find it interesting to scan through when I run out of RSS feeds. In fact it can generate an RSS feed but that would probably swamp my aggregator.

Gmail seepage

Google know how to make me happy. They've given me 6 gmail invites. I'll be giving them to friends/family. I won't sell them on ebay, not even to recoup my £1.30 investment.

I got a spam message today so I marked it as such and looked in the spam folder to find there were already 3 spams in there: there was no other indication that they were there. They were legitimate spams though, asking me if I wanted to advertise my web site to 28 million people by sending spam. Does the 28 million people include the ones with spam filters? If so I'd want a discount.

The gmail invite scheme is a great ploy. Slow adoption of the new system, spreading in a way that makes people feel privileged, starting with techy types who can invite and help their non-techy friends.

Update:

• I gave myself a gmail invite to use for work and managed to grab the coveted address that has my own name (guess what it is, cursed spambot). My name is not uncommon (I appear on the third page of a google search which finds my Firl entry) so this is a win.

• I've given one other invite away and yet I still have 6 invites.

• I logged into my new account and that has 6 invites.

• I think the spam I received is spam I forwarded to myself from my home server.

So are google going crazy with invites today, is it a weird cookie bug, or am I just lucky?

Update^2:

• It was a cookie bug. I had two different accounts open in two firefox tabs and the first account got transformed into the second account. The new account did have 6 invites already. It seems you can only look at one account at a time