Thursday, June 10, 2004

Shipwreck and Gmail

I don't know how many of you know the shipwreck competition. It's a game that we used to play in our school cultural competition. The game goes like this. Assume that the ship that you are traveling is damaged in an iceberg collision (a la Titanic!) and there are only a few lifeboats available. Each of the competitors will be assigned a 'individuality' and they will have to justify why they need to be on the lifeboats. For example, one may be given the identity of Napoleon and she will have to speak why she needs to live.

On a similar analogy, I thought I will write a few points on why I should be sent a GMail invite:

I need to be sent an Gmail invite because:

1. I'm one of the earliest users of the webmail in India. I'm not sure how many users in India are being part of the initial users of Gmail. But, if they do I'm happy but I should be one of them atleast now!
2. I'm one of the earliest webmasters in India. I created my personal website as early as 1998 and was also a Geocities.com volunteer.
3. I'm one of the initial members of the open directory project.
4. I'm the webmaster of my company's corporate website. My company is a 11000 strong, over $350 million company
5. I'm a great critique and love to do beta testing. Whenever there's a beta available I wouldn't mind uninstalling a registered version and trying out the beta.
6. I have a personal website and I receive mails from a lot of people across the world. I don't want to delete them because these are not just mails but valuable comments of my website visitors. Gmail would help me to have all of them and revisit them whenever I want.

Please send me the invite.

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