20 More Invitekus
So it looks like Jaiku is ramping up a gear into stage two of their invite program. There has been no official word from anyone in Jaiku yet but we have reports from far and wide the all Jaiku users now have 20 new invites to share. I have checked this myself with an account I set up just a few days ago for testing and it too has received the 20 invites upgrade.
The 20 invites are being applied as a kind of universal upgrade, in that no mater how many invites you had before, be it zero, two or ten, you now have 20. We have upgraded the share an invite form so you can get back over and re-register with your 20 new invites.
This reminds me so much of the way invites went with Gmail and it hopefully shows that the big G are ready to step things up with Jaiku. The next thing I will be very interested in seeing is whether these 20 invites will be renewable ala some early Gmail accounts. I know some people who have just sent out their 20 new invites so we will be watching them to see if they do (thanks @bvlad @rcadden and @carlplage). From what I remember of how Gmail invites went the step up will be to 50 invites but it was nearly three years after the launch of Gmail before it fully opened its doors. They did however open it to US residents with a US mobile number after about 16 months. Hopefully Jaiku does not stay closed for this long.
Does this mean Google are getting ready to push Jaiku? We are hearing a lot more from @jyri in relation to what’s going on, then we did in the three months after Google bought Jaiku, even if he can’t seam to hold on to his bags :). So hopefully this is a good sign that things are on the up!
March 26th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Sounds good the direction Jaiku is going, unlucky for me the Chinese government have banned it here. Ah well.
March 29th, 2008 at 9:58 am
I couldn’t contribute to jaikuinvites previously because I’d already given my previous 10 to friends and #maemo (or was it #mauku). So yay for 20 more invites! Added them to the queue.