Would you like to test gmail?

[incubusdaemon]

I have a blogger.com account (which is now owned by google). Signing in today I was greeted by a little textbox with the text:

"As an active Blogger user, we would like to invite you to be one of the first to try out Google's new email service, Gmail.

Would you like to give it a whirl? YES / NO "

So, I signed up for an account! I have to say the interface google has created is beautiful.

I don't know if it applies to all Blogger users or not, but you might try making a blogger.com account and see if it lets you sign up for gmail. If anyone tests it, let me know if it works.

Edit: I tested it myself. It didn't show up. I even tried manually typing in the destination of the link I followed the first time while logged into my old account. nada.

Sorry folks. If any of you want to try to trick it into letting you do it, the link is http://www.blogger.com/gmail.pyra

Edited April 24, 2004 by incubusdaemon

[Liquid]

OOO lucky b4st4rd! Ill try to sign up.

[preducer]

liquid, do you get it ?

[dL]

OMG I want it! I've just signed up, hope they'll ask me too.

dL

[dpanda]

i have an account there too. but me no invitation. =(

[GoodOlClint]

Just Signing up Doesn't let you in I noticed.

[Liquid]

liquid, do you get it ?

nope. :no:

[BxBoy]

/me sits and waits patiently..

[Banzai]

I want an account. could you post more screen shots?

[shihchiun]

cool, i got the invitation:

signing up now,,

[Zetter]

I checked my blogger account, saw no signup

I guess i'm not an "active" user :(

[shihchiun]

I checked my blogger account, saw no signup

I guess i'm not an "active" user :(

yeah, i wonder what they mean by that. i haven't used blogger for a while, since i got movable type working

[snippet1]

Your best bet if (like me) you don't get an invitation is probably this.

[Max Veteran]

I've got a Gmail accout too! Its really fast at the moment. Hotmail is weak in comparison to this in my mind.

[Max Veteran]

Screens. Done in 800x600 for size reasons.

[Max Veteran]

Second.

[Max Veteran]

Third.

[Max Veteran]

Fourth.

[Argi]

Is it just me or is the site a lot slower now?

[Deactivated Account]

when clicking on ( http://www.blogger.com/gmail.pyra ) it takes you to ( http://www.blogger.com/home.pyra )

anyone know the signup page URL ?? like https://signup.gmail.google.com anything like that ??

[cibbis]

no invite yet =(

[incubusdaemon]

when clicking on (? http://www.blogger.com/gmail.pyra ) it?  takes you to? ( http://www.blogger.com/home.pyra )

anyone know the signup page URL ?? like? https://signup.gmail.google.com anything like that ??

Thats because when you follow that link, it runs a script to check if you are eligable. If you are, it shows you a signup page. If not, it redirects you home. Someone would have to capture the script code to know how to work with it.

You can't read the URL in my screen shot- but that's the /gmail.pyra page i get.

The best part about gmail is it's conversation style email viewing- when you get a new email it automatically loads up all of the other emails on the same converstation thread and shows them in reverse order, sort of like an IM conversation. It was even able to detect a message I replied to (sending messages to myself to test) was part of converstaion, even though I replied from another address.

/me thinks gmail is doing a limited beta test merely to build buzz. Bloggers would tend to be geeks/internet elite and could spread the word more efficiently than a random selection of people would.

[Mike Frett]

I also got in, Looks cool. ;)

[liar2]

I got my gmail account. Awesome! Intersting, considering I haven't exactly been an "active" blogger user.

[SuperJediMedia]

How did you get this

Email?

PopUp?

Displayed on what page?