The Gmail virus

What I don't understand: Where is it written that I will have my primary email on google? Where do I sign over all of my existing accounts as everybody seems to asume?

In my case I would like to have google as a webmailer for mailadresses I use in blogs and things like it, hoping they will better cope with spam. Because the one I used till now is lost in spam and I tend to keep the new one clear.

And normal mails which won't be rejected because of filled qouta.

As for now, I have not seen many advertisements and am surprised to see a webapplikation which is finally combining webuse with keyboard shortcuts. It is a new useful toy. Nothing more, nothing less.

Google wants to scan my mails? Okay. I am old enough to use pgp or other relevant protections.

Signing up for a google account does not mean I sign my soul over.

And yes, I begged for one, only to find that nicole was already taken. ;o) Invalid was available at that time.

Hello Heiko,
I totally aggree with you. And I don’t think this “simply happens”. Google seems to employ some kind of marketing/pr genius. It’s not only the current viral marketing campaign for Gmail. Essential for this succes was the clever trick of making viral recommendations a scarce ressource (which sounds like a contradiction at first). All the other viral campaigns try to push us to recommend something to as much new contacts as possible. The Gmail campaign tries to uphold the impression that we are doing those we are inviting a real favor – because invitations are (seem to be) scarce. Clever.

But this is not their biggest marketing “wonder”. What I find most fascinating is how they succeed in presenting their company – now a billion-dollar biggie with some 2.000 employees - as a nice, cool little startup, who is still kind of an underdog. Genius at work.

And BTW, the most compelling feature with Gmail isn’t the “free” 1 Gig space. Actually Gmail is simply the first Webmail service that at least in some respect works better than a desktop client. (It is still somewhat clumsy compared to Outlook, but it is really surprising what they did achieve with an HTML frontend).

What makes Google sometimes such a frightening player in the market is the combination of this marketing/pr wizardry with some really cool product offerings.

In terms of web-clients to email, Oddpost.com has been a long-time favorite of mine. However, Oddpost isn't cross-browser and pretty much IE only.
Also Oddpost seems to get slow once you have MANY emails in your inbox.
Gmail seems to have found a few interesting workarounds.

@Nicole
> What I don't understand: Where is it written
> that I will have my primary email on google?
> Where do I sign over all of my existing
> accounts as everybody seems to asume?

That is written nowhere ... but IMHO a lot of the really cool features (the nice tagging system, Google searching for ALL of my mail archive ...) of Gmail simply won't work, if Gmail ist just another secondary mail adress of mine.

These (and others) are the key features of Google, not the "free" 1 Gig Space. (Why are people always so obsessed with "free" offerings? Nothing's free in the business world! You always have to pay! You may not notice the payment immediately ...)

I can't use gmail in my opera browser so it sucks.
A great Company with big technical Knowledge can't build a cross-browser System?
Why?

@Markus
I am considering setting some maillinglists to google and will use it for features like status mails of some kind. But I am not in need for a decent search feature - my mailer does use regexp; that is enough for me ;o)

@nicole (das jetzt mal auf deutsch, weil ich's auf englisch sicherlich nicht korrekt hinbekomme ...)

glücklich ist ... wer mit dem zufrieden sein kann, was er JETZT hat!

And yes, I begged for one, only to find that nicole was already taken.

No one took it, they just won't allow you to use common names.

I got my gmail account a little while ago. And after trying and trying it, I came to the conclusion that it still is a true beta. Thus, not ready for my ‘mama’ yet. There still needs to be a lot of work done on various aspects of the service.

Yet, their way of using the noise of their new service is brilliant!

Overall, another gadget from Google. However I have to admit that I start a bit wondering about the long-term of Google. Will they be able to beat Yahoo! They have a great search portal with Alltheweb.com. In my opinion are their results quite often better than those from Google. Will Yahoo ever put this is direct competition with Google, copying Google’s business model? Would be interesting.

Interesting.. We came to the same conclusion however I think it's part of an overarching plan to take over the whole email / IM / social network...

It seems that inviting friends to join Gmail is temporarily unavailable. May the Google add some new servers to make way for more accounts and restablish that fancy marketing tool....

hi,

I live in Cyprus, a very small island in the mediterenian and I just found out about Gmail yesterday even though it's been out since May. I wish to write an article about it in my college magazine that almost 5000 people would read it. But to get the highest and clearest opinion am looking for a beta account myself to try it before writting about it. So if any of you still has any invites, please consider me for the sake of news.

Thanks,
Vassili E.T.

it seems no 1 has any more of these invites...if any 1 got one 2 spare ill be grateful...tnx

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