got a gmail account?

I WANT A GMAIL ACCOUNT! *sigh* won't anyone give me a gmail account... pretty please =D no one? oh well... i guess i'll just have to wait for them to make it public...

anyways, for those of you who haven't heard of gmail, it's a web-based e-mail service that will be offered by google (soon?). here are some key features:
- since it's google, you don't need to sort your email to find something, you search for it
- 1G of storage. yes, 1 gigabyte!!! (now are you beginning to see why i want one)
- messages are displayed with their replies. (kewl huh?)
- NO POP-UP ADS or untargetted banner ads.

did you just say "huh?" on that last one? well, here's what they say about that:

8. Are there ads in Gmail?

There are no pop-ups or untargeted banner ads in Gmail. Like Google search results pages, Gmail does include relevant text ads on the right side of the page. The matching of ads to content is a completely automated process performed by computers. No humans read your email to target the ads, and no email content or other personally identifiable information is ever provided to advertisers.

Ads are matched using the same technology that powers the Google AdSense program, which already places targeted ads on thousands of sites across the web by quickly analyzing the content of pages and determining which ads are most relevant to them. Here's a sneak peek of how ads look in Gmail.

interestingly enough, a lot of people thought this was an april fools joke, i though so too at first. i mean 1G of email storage? for free??? and the announcement being so close to april 1? well, it's not an april fools joke, the actual april fool joke was about some weird job opening (i forget the details), and I WANT ONE!!! *sigh*

anyone have an extra invite? =D

get more info here.

UPDATE: i got invited!!! woohoo!!! don't sort, search =D