Getting generous with Gmail invitations

Is Google preparing Gmail for general rollout?

Today I noticed that I have this little box in my Gmail account saying that I've now got 50 Gmail invitations. When I looked yesterday, I still had the link saying I had 3.

And I noticed from a post by Josh Hallett that he's also got 50 invitations. I bet many other Gmail account owners have the same. Hence my question - does this indicate preparation of some kind for a general rollout? Maybe by flooding out greater volumes of invitations in one go? Or maybe get some more buzz through bloggers posting speculative commentaries ;) One thing I did notice, in Gmail's instructions on how to invite people, is that the text was updated yesterday to reflect the change, ie, the little box instead of just a text link as it was before.

Gmail has been very successful so far. And the days seem to be gone when if you posted on your blog that you had 6 invitations, you'd be swamped with requests for one within a minute or two of your post.

So what do I do with 50 invitations? Everyone I know has a Gmail account now. Is there a charitable cause, preferably here in Europe, I can offer these to?

Comments

[Mao]

Hi i'd live to try one of those gmail thing, thanks a lot...

[Carlos]

Where is that box i searched around my gmail account i cant find it?

[Kay]

My husband is active duty military. I would like to get a gmail account for him. I have looked for someone who has one, but haven't found anyone we know with one. If you know someone who still has invitations, it would be very nice to set up a gmail account for him and some of his buddies. Thanks.

[Francisco]

http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-267d3b8e0c-054121e1f7-6ef2ce565b
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-267d3b8e0c-375a1d57e0-f6116f3143
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-267d3b8e0c-09ed189663-8d3021cef0
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-267d3b8e0c-4b4834528e-52da8ab183
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-267d3b8e0c-3e9e368fc0-eb83f47c86
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-267d3b8e0c-43974489a6-88147b399b
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-267d3b8e0c-ac0d28162b-8e9b5a7125
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-267d3b8e0c-7ee6b731d9-72fda5aad9
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-267d3b8e0c-93135e9a66-8fdc92e2e7
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-267d3b8e0c-516015e8a0-508594ee14
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-267d3b8e0c-a7bd38c185-a42dcad49f
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-267d3b8e0c-15f88b6216-6ba9f9758a
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-267d3b8e0c-278578cf9d-97f6172cf5
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-267d3b8e0c-34b5264237-465d424375
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-267d3b8e0c-b46d9139d3-fca279d34f
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-267d3b8e0c-5066c96fe7-54415b868e
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-267d3b8e0c-7dd788274e-a97b41a41b
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-267d3b8e0c-b49554f629-2543674e11
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-267d3b8e0c-e5d9adff5f-97ae28e11f

[Neville Hobson]

Ok, eveyone, sorry for the delays but the invite backlog is being taken care of now!

No more invites from this point on, so I'm now closing commenting on this post. If anyone still needs invitations, there are links to other places in the comments above.