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I have 50 invites, anyone who wants one reply to this thread. Now with no strings attached. ;)

Expect an invite within 48 hours of requesting one. Rock on, I know I will as I sit here listening to my way cool Apple iPod mini. If there were a better way to enjoy my large library of music, I haven't found it yet.

Update:

I've sent out about two dozen invites so far, only about 10 people have accepted them. If you asked for one, I will send an invite, but I only can send them when I'm at home so be patient. If you don't really want one, please don't waste my time asking.

update: i checked my sent mail folder and since i started using gmail i've sent out 140 invites with only 40 people accepting them.
Please don't ask for an invite unless you will use it.

update: only 18 left!!!

Update: August 18th! Good news I another 50 invites, bad news is I'm about 6 days behind in sending out the current requests. Please be paitent if you asked for an invite, I will send some more this evening. I've been sort of really busy playing with my Canon EOS 20D digital SLR, some of the photos on here were taken with it.

Also please only put your email address in the email box, you do not have to put it in your message.

Thanks!

Update August 23rd...
Really busy over the weekend so I'm behind again. I'll send out 10 this morning to try to catch up.

Update: OK all caught up again... enjoy!\

Update August 25th: I'm still sending out invites, and I'm getting a few undeliverables back... please verify your email address before you hit submit comment. I don't have time to guess your correct email address.

60 Invitations to Gmail accepted to date!

update:
101 invitations accepted to date!

hCard Creator
also see the hcard format explained

neat...

hCard is a simple, open, distributed contact information format for people, companies, and organizations, which is suitable for embedding in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. hCard is a 1:1 representation of the vCard standard (RFC2426 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt)) in XHTML and is a compound microformat, one of several open microformat standards. Table of contents

GeoURL (2.0)
Ask is working on a new project:

GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor's blog, perhaps, or the web page of the resturants near you. GeoURL is listing 134,175 sites.

announced here

Grounds for Identity

If we create the protocols, APIs and other standards that let customers relate at full power with the companies they choose, consumer becomes an obsolete noun. The companies now in full charge of the identities they confer on each of us will no longer have full control, because now they will have to relate and not just distribute. But because we show up as customers rather than as consumers, the range of business possibilities is much larger. The trade-off is a good one for both sides.

The death of e-mail

With identity as the base on which business logic is built, access privileges and the location of the data can be offered by the "sender" rather than pushing a message out. Instead of playing the digital equivalent of dodge ball with spam, we can now market our identities and barter degrees of access in return for services, products, or information.


So what's taking so long? Will XML make it easy for others to embrace and extend Redmond's crown jewels? On .Net Insecurity Day, Office czar Jeff Raikes suggested that "because of our resources, ... the extensiveness of our user base, and the popularity of our products," Microsoft could afford to make the investment "in the long term."