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Today I noticed that I have this little box in my Gmail account saying that I've now got 50 Gmail invitations. When I looked yesterday, I still had the link saying I had 3.

And I noticed from a post by Josh Hallett that he's also got 50 invitations. I bet many other Gmail account owners have the same. Hence my question - does this indicate preparation of some kind for a general rollout? Maybe by flooding out greater volumes of invitations in one go? Or maybe get some more buzz through bloggers posting speculative commentaries ;)

One thing I did notice, in Gmail's instructions on how to invite people, is that the text was updated yesterday to reflect the change, ie, the little box instead of just a text link as it was before.

Gmail has been very successful so far. And the days seem to be gone when if you posted on your blog that you had 6 invitations, you'd be swamped with requests for one within a minute or two of your post.

So what do I do with 50 invitations? Everyone I know has a Gmail account now. Is there a charitable cause, preferably here in Europe, I can offer these to?

Neville Hobson is the author of the popular NevilleHobson.com blog which focuses on business communication and technology. Neville is currentlly the VP of New Marketing at Crayon. Visit Neville Hobson's blog: NevilleHobson.com.