Oh, hey, yeah, I'm going to "stage an intervention" to get people to switch to the company that's going to yank their email with no human to complain to, whenever they feel like it.<p>This is ham-handed and frankly not nearly as funny as I'm sure it seemed on campus.
I have mixed feelings about this. I don't like to tell other people what they should or should not be doing. It's rude.<p>Maybe that's just me, but I also have never heard of anyone using the "Invite to Gmail" feature (at least since registration is open to everyone).
I don't get it. Why would I care what e-mail people are using? I'll tell them about it if I think it will solve some problem they're having, but otherwise it doesn't matter to me.
That's the least Googley Google thing I've ever seen. It's bald-faced bare-knuckles competitive, focuses 95% on FUD and 5% on features, and seems to <i>know</i> this and get by by saying "Don't worry, I'm being ironic about it" but <i>it isn't</i>.
I, for one, want to become proficient enough in sysadmin to painlessly run my own mail server and MUA, know how to back up properly and automatically, filter spam, set up SPF and DKIM. Oh, and host my own name servers too.<p>No sarcasm. In the meantime, I'll stick to Gmail.
I wonder if this is a part of the Google+ push. Once Google opens G+ to the general public, my assumption is that if you have a GMail account, you'll essentially automatically have a G+ account. If you're logged in, then you've become a G+ user just by using GMail or even Google Search.
One of the fine thing about email is that (unlike social networking services like Facebook or Google+) it's based on open and widely used protocols that works across service providers. Why would I ever care what email service provider someone else uses? I trust peoples choices. Hotmail/Windows Live Mail is quite nice these days.
<i>"Save your friends from outdated email"</i><p>Google has set up a dedicated website to help push people towards using their email service.<p>That's just one side of the medal. The other is that Google wants people to <i>stop</i> using their current email provider and move to them.<p><i>"Save your friends from YOUNAMEIT"</i><p>Maybe we'll also see more sites that help you save your friends from continuing to use Gmail, Facebook, Skype,...
In fact, more and more I want to encourage my friends to stay away from gmail. Hell even I'm in the process of moving away from using Google accounts.<p>I can understand that Google is trying to collect as much user data in as accurate way as possible, but recently it's been increasingly annoying how they are trying to fix what's not broken.<p>I have multiple google accounts for different purposes, and recently Google started disallowing multi-user access to their sites. This is extremely inconvenient and annoying for me that I'm even thinking about switching to another email provider. In fact I have already started using ymail for certain purposes.<p>I might be a minority for now, but I see this annoyance will only accelerate in the future for even ordinary people as Google tries to fight against Facebook with identity.<p>What do you all think?
Save your friends! Make them use all Google products!
Make them give their details to Google, their emails, their browser, their lives, and make sure to reload those ads while you're at it!<p>Internet in 2020: Using a Google Laptop to access the Google.com with a Google browser, using a Google search engine that searches mostly through Google services (other services died), talking to people via Google talk, phoning them via Google Voice, checking you Google email, managing your documents on Google docs, your schedule on Google calendar, share your pictures on Google picasa, your videos on Google youtube, your life on Google+<p>Heck, you don't see it coming yet?! What do you need more?<p>Internet will be Google and world domination is rather near. Yeah I know it sounds funny but it's not actually just a joke - it looks pretty damn much near to our actually present already.
Sugar coating email invite is lame. There was a time when I almost always saw google doing awesome things. Now it doesn't look any different from other big companies like microsoft or IBM. I wonder if it is possible to be a big company and still do really cool things?
Oh, so the HN hivemind decided it's shit all over Gmail day in this thread because a guy with pictures barely indistinguishable from child porn had his Google account temporarily banned? Good to know.
I thought it was about fixing Gmail.<p><a href="http://www.email-standards.org/clients/gmail/" rel="nofollow">http://www.email-standards.org/clients/gmail/</a>
One friend? The majority of my friends don't use gmail. Its just not that good of a service, exchange, and big services like that make it laughable.<p>Plus I've found it unreliable with certain ISPs, mail just doesn't arrive. Black holed, never making it to the spam folder, not being bounced back.<p>So sorry its amatuer mail and I'll let people choose there own life style, but I will not recomend it for work related stuff.
Really, really nice design. I'm loving Google's newfound attention to aesthetics.<p>What's with the Gotham though? I know H&FJ keep talking about making their fonts embeddable one day, but it hasn't happened yet: <a href="http://www.typography.com/ask/faq.php?faqID=126#Faq_126" rel="nofollow">http://www.typography.com/ask/faq.php?faqID=126#Faq_126</a>
I find this quite poorly programmed.<p>The service looks for emails that end with @gmail.com, but fail to take into account companies with email provided by Google Apps.
Brilliant. I can't wait to use that idea to save my friends from Big Brother. Hmm… But they would have to trust <i>me</i> instead of Google.<p>Well, better send them a FreedomBox for Christmas, then.