Gmail is so last week, but I hear there may be one or two peo­ple out there who don’t have an account and who might like one.

If that sounds like you, leave me a com­ment. Leave your email address in the space pro­vided, but don’t worry, it won’t show up on the site and I won’t sell you to a spam list (I doubt they pay much these days anyway).

I keep see­ing the­o­ries put for­ward about what fac­tors influ­ence the num­ber of gmail invites you recieve, but after my own expe­ri­ence and the expe­ri­ences of the peo­ple I’ve sent invites to, I’m con­viced it’s 100% ran­dom! I got 13 invites in the first two weeks, and then none for nearly three months, despite using it daily for per­sonal mail, send­ing myself reminders and a stack of quite high vol­ume mail­ing lists includ­ing CFTalk, CFAussie, all the Fuse­box lists and the Web Stan­dards Group list. Dave checks his account once per day at the most, and he just 6 invites to dis­trib­ute. Who knows that those crazy Google engi­neers are up to!

I just wish they’d do a PageR­ank update.

Update: The invite is gone (to MadK who got the first com­ment in). Thanks every­one, if I get any more invites I’ll keep you all in mind :)