Gmail 2.0: I am in the 1%

My friends have started talking about Gmail 2.0 A LOT.

I posted an entry a few days back about it. I really wanted to try the new things. I was a little bit jealous about some of my friends got into the claimed 1% beta users.
I admit that I do have a few accounts. 4 actually to prepare for the soon-finished space for my most used account. Another reason why I set up more than one account was to take the account name as early as possible before Gmail becomes a mainstream product like hotmail or live mail... Up till today, I just use my hotmail/live mail occasionally even though they offered 5 GB space for users.

Now, let us come back to the topic of Gmail 2.0 beta. 2 out of my 4 accounts are in the 1%. I feel that I am lucky enough to reach the 50% chance of getting into the selected 1%. However, I also started pondering how huge is the 1% base? 1 Billion? or 50 Billion? if that number is really huge, then being in the top seemed more likely to happen to the frequent users like us (my friends and me). On the other hand, being in the 1% seemed really exciting and it makes people feel good. I am really sure if the 1% is accurate or it was just a PR tactics to generate some buzz about Gmail again...

The contacts looks really cool. Much better than the text based organization of the Gmail product. The Version 2.0 looks cleaner ( ... ).

By the way, if you use Safari to check your Gmail, you might always get looped out even though you are in the 1% beta users. I tried my account that granted the new version on Safari and it did not work as it works on Firefox on Mac. By the way, I started using Mac since the last day of July this year. This entry was posted via Firefox on my MacBook Pro. I really like it. =)

Alright. Let me take some screen shots of the Gmail 2.0! =)




It is not too far from you already... at least close enough!

In addition, the storage is growth rate has been doubled and now you have more storage... I was concerned about my Gmail storage and my Picasa storage (purchased). Now the storage all upgraded, that's really cool. It was $20 for 6 GB last year. Now it is $20 for 10GB. I guess next year the storage might go up to 25 GB for the same price. The hardware technology is just getting better and cheaper. I think Google has already made tons of money on such small storage business. All the best! I still like Picasa better than Flickr =)

Have a fantastic day! Nov 6 (11-6) 1 sounds like 'want to', 'have', 'get'; "6" means smoothness and ease... hope everything goes well!