It's so refreshing to see these kind of messages from large corprations of Google's Size -

Take a look at the message On GMail's Homepage -

Hi, yep, I read the message yesterday and just thought: "wow, it seems there are real people in there".

I've always liked the culture at Google, I remember that Yahoo started something like this but apparently they went too "corporate" later.

I hope Google will keep being fresh and honest, or at least projecting that image.

Regards!

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Seems this is really no less corporate. They simply edited the homepage for the service.

Why not take advantage of the service and take a chance to make some money at the same time. They could have sent personalized emails to their users since they own the software and offered discounts on either advertising services or in their logoed products store as a thank you for participating in the beta program. Wouldn't have been much more difficult and would have the capability to be more human, after all they sent select advertisers and publishers gifts via Fedex.

I really like Gmail. I particularly like it because I talked one of my (non techie) friends into leaving AOL after years of being with them, and they made the transition by switching their email to Gmail first, discontinuing their use of AOL email, and hey presto - there was nothing worth staying for after that!

The thing that really swung it for them was that instead of having an impossible to remember email address at AOL they got their industry keyword @gmail.com

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Revs | Ecru

Welcome to PulseToday Revsorg!

Ah yes, That was one good thing about getting the invites first. I grabbed adguru@gmail.com (a domain I've been dying to get but already registered )... I forward all my emails to Gmail account because of the wonderful interface

Hiya - thanks for the welcome

I know it's not got the prestige of a .com but you could pick up adguru.org instead - I guess it's obvious from the fact that I have revs.org that I don't regard .org's as second class domains.

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Revs | Ecru

Ah well, never said that I hated any extension or anything. Well, I have a lot of domains with extensions other than .coms (excluding .infos too ) but ATM what I really need is the time to develop them

Thanks for the tip though!