Miscoranda: Testing Gmail
Lucky guy Sean B. Palmer received one of the 1,000 new Gmail accounts from Google, and lucky for everyone else, he wrote an in-depth review of the service, describing the interface, the several innovations and even provided screenshots. It would seem from the review that Gmail has most of what a person would want for a web mail application.
The limited roll-out certainly heightened the sense exclusivity and hype, which never hurts an application launch. The day Google announced the product, MarketingVOX's top search term was "Gmail screenshots," (with many queries coming from competitor domains). Here they are.