As far as I know people won't be able to invite others, so there is no invite to share. You'll only be able to recommend (8) friends, and they will have priority on the others.
BTW: I am in the developer preview but I haven't received the invite for the real thing. I asked to the others in the sandbox but it doesn't look like there's any invite being received so far.
- They're sending 100.000 invites starting from today
- They'll ask some of the invited users to nominate others to also receive early invites
So they're probably not giving all of them away today, not everyone will get invites to share and if you do they won't be direct invites but nominations.
According to the Google Australia team, they won't be releasing the invites until tonight so that they will be up to handle the influx of users.
http://twitter.com/twephanie
Also, here's my email, if the nominations/invites exist: johngunderman[at]gmail.com Thanks :)
I can't really imagine a better peer review other than hacker news to be honest. However I wish I'd got a more replies when I tried to get skilled people to read this (expecially from the english mothertongue), but that didn't happen.
You say the internet is broken because authentication is a pain? You say there should be just one social network?
I didn't say the Internet is broken because authentication is a pain. I said the Web has been created to deal (and access) hypertexts. Nowadays the WWW is used for much more. People use it to shop, keep contacts with friends living far away, some use it to share their "lives" and the current state of art is far from being functional to the scope. To my personal point of view, it is broken by design when it comes to these scopes. And far from me trying to say there should be just a social network.
The gateway I idealize is not a giant bucket (or a silo) you'd fill with your stuff, that's exactly what I want to avoid. The "gateway" would just be a place you use to authenticate and authorize apps to access subsets of your data. Some of it (anagraphical data for the most part) would be stored on the gateway, and other stuff would be in much more appropiate places. Flickr, Twitter, Blogger, Facebook, et cetera. The model I idealize would be a common layer to build thing on, nothing more and nothing less.
Yeah, that's more or less what I'd like it to work, but I think using phones or other devices that may get offline would be unworkable (at least in the present). You could, however, act as your own gateway just like you can do with OpenID right now
BTW: I am in the developer preview but I haven't received the invite for the real thing. I asked to the others in the sandbox but it doesn't look like there's any invite being received so far.