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Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980 and is widely recognized as an expert on both technical and business issues. He has been published over a thousand times, launched four Internet-related startup companies, has written twenty business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed. Dave maintains three weblogs, The Business Blog at Intuitive.com, focused on business and industry analysis, the eponymous Ask Dave Taylor devoted to tech and business Q&A and The Attachment Parenting Blog, discussing topics of interest to parents. Dave is an award-winning speaker, sought after conference and workshop participant and frequent guest on radio and podcast programs.

When did Gmail lose its invite feature?

Just got a request for a Google Gmail invitation after a month or two of no requests of this nature - doubtless because people can just go to the Gmail home page and sign up - and am surprised that there's no longer a "invite sender to Gmail" link:

Google Gmail: No Invite

There's still the "invite a friend" box on the left column, but now I have to actually dig up their email address from the header and - gasp - cut and paste it. So much work. :-)

Did this vanish recently, or has it been gone a long time?

Posted by Dave Taylor at December 27, 2007 9:51 AM

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Must have been very recently, like in the past 1-2 days. I specifically remember seeing the "invite to gmail" link after sending an email to a non-gmail user about 1-2 days ago, and it doesn't happen now. I was wondering if they were ever going to do away with the invites since anybody has been able to sign up for quite some time now.

I still have the invites on the front page. I have 98 available, I had 100 and gave two away a long time ago before registration was open.

Posted by: Chris Buechler on December 27, 2007 1:02 PM
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