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Forums - Sony Discussion - Home open beta to be 'similar to GMAIL'

azrm2k on 03 June 2008

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/06/03/home-open-beta-to-be-similar-to-gmail/

So the open beta will be invite-only as current members invite new people to the service.  If a healthy amount of invites are given to everybody I think this could be a good idea.  GMAIL's initial rollout was a thing of beauty as people paid good money to find out what all the buzz was about.  Obviously I don't expect people to do the same for Home but that's why I said a "healthy amount of invites".  Doing it as an invite system should help garner interest so some people will check it out at least.

I'm still not entirely sold on Home but it'll be interesting to see how it shapes up. 



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arsenalrc15 on 03 June 2008

who will get the initial beta invites to send out?

sry dont have the time to read the article if the info is in there



windbane on 03 June 2008

Probably members of Qore...



kingofwale on 03 June 2008

well, if anybody has the invites, please be generous and send it to some of us PS3 owners here.



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arsenalrc15 on 03 June 2008

haha yea for purchasing a 2 dollar e-magazine with info that can be gained from the internet.



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SamuelRSmith on 03 June 2008

If anybody on here ever gets an invite, they should promise to hand out 10 of their invites (if given 50, like gmail) to members on VGC, and other members should promise to do the same.

That way everyone on VGC could get into the Home BETA if they wanted.



windbane on 03 June 2008

Yeah I'm sure we'll find a way...I've got several vgchartz members on my friends list already.

Apparently I need some friend codes so I can get some demos for the Wii...*sigh*



Domo-Kun on 03 June 2008

I would give both testicles to get in the beta for Home.

I'm only half joking.



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akuma587 on 03 June 2008

Yeah, I would love a Home invite. I am GAP, so maybe they will invite me to the Beta eventually.



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PS360ForTheWin on 03 June 2008

http://www.homebetatrial.com/