The Cheezy Blog

It appears that Google has finally opened its Gmail service up for general sign-ups. This comes after several years of it being an invite only system similar to their earlier Orkut social networking site, which has also moved to an open sign-up system after a long time as an invite only site.

While the invite system works well for social networking, I can’t understand why they applied it to an email system in the first place, especially not once they were giving out 100 invites a day per user anyway. With that volume of invites going out, it certainly wasn’t acting as a mechanism to limit the amount of users on the system during the early stages.