Dateline: Luanda, June 8
Once Google announced that it was about to launch G-Mail (A 1 gig e-mail service), mailers and bloggers have been in a frenzy. What made it worse was the Google announcement that a test run would be initiated with mailers chosen by invitation only.
Let me tell you, those invitations (selling for quite a sum on E Bay), are becoming as sought after as Brad Pitt's last cigarette. In fact, children from ages 4 up to grown men and women (1 gran in her 80s),are begging, cajoling,lathering at the mouth, slavering (stop it!-ed)), slobbering and pleading like crazy chickens after a piece of lettuce. Young girls are offering their cellphones, their Corvettes and their boyfriends. (This is bad: A Corvette I can understand, but your precious cellphone!). Men and boys are offering panty collections, rare Dylan CDs and the chance to ride on a Harley. One guy offered a night with his wife.
If you would like to see some of these crazy offers (for 1 G-Mail invitation) then go to a colleague's website.
http://gmailswap.revhost.net
It's new and it's very cool--built around pledges for THOSE INVITES--and also very entertaining.The traffic through that site is worse than LA at six pee em. Go take a look see. Decide on your swap(must be legal), and you might qualify to get one of those
golden invitations.
How do I know this? Because he offered me an invite in return for some publicity. (Eat your hearts out Steve, Robyn & James!)