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January 7, 2006 at 6:17 pm #21184shifterMember
I’ve recieved some additional invitations to join the Windows Live Messenger 8.0 Beta. I’d like to offer them firstly to the members of my MSN Team who are interested in trying it out, then perhaps sharing with the Premium Members of the site next. If I have any left, I will likely make an offer in the public MSN area.
So any staff who are interested in trying the beta, please let me know. 🙂
(If you’re not on my MSN Team but still want to try it, I might be kind enough to help you out as well 😉 )
Things to remember – the invites are not Gmail or Firefox friendly, so unless you like digging through email coding to find the invite link, I suggest you offer a non-gmail address and access it in IE or you email client.
January 7, 2006 at 6:56 pm #135752sarahtownyMemberYes I have some as well. I think after talking to a few people they have sent out quite a few invites yesterday. But like shifter if you want some for friends etc let me know as well.
January 7, 2006 at 7:30 pm #135750SpikeMembershifter wrote:Things to remember – the invites are not Gmail or Firefox friendly…
I don’t know about Firefox, but how are they not Gmail-friendly? The “Download Now” button works, other than that, I don’t see anything wrong.I also have some invites to give out if anyone would like them. Speak now, or forever let me blog about the invites (when my host fixes my server) and give them out there. :p I have 5 invites.
January 7, 2006 at 8:12 pm #135746shifterMemberSpike wrote:I don’t know about Firefox, but how are they not Gmail-friendly? The “Download Now” button works, other than that, I don’t see anything wrong.
When I recieved my invite, I recieved it via Gmail, and the download button would not work in Firefox or IE. Perhaps it was due to a security setting on my part, but rather than risk having a useless invite, I was merely suggesting you use an alternate email address if possible.January 11, 2006 at 4:27 pm #135742Jeff HesterKeymasterWhat do you think about creating a seperate forum for Windows Live Messenger (just to keep the discussions about the beta seperate from the MSN Messenger)? Eventually, it could be merged into one, but I like the idea of a seperate area to make it easier for people to find stuff that is specifically about WLM. Also, we could then use the forum itself to manage invitations. I saw this technique used at a site called gmailinvitation.com and it seemed to work pretty well.
They have the rules outlined in the intitial topic, then people reply if they want an invite. When an invitation is sent, the “inviter” quotes the original request with something like “invitation sent!” This way everyone knows who as already been sent an invitation. The one downside — people have to expose their email address somehow.
There are a couple ways around this. If they want to hide their email address in their profile, I can still see it. The downside is that I need to look it up, which is a bit of a PITA. I’d prefer if anyone with invitations could send them…
The other way would be to instruct them to obsfucate their email address: jeff [at] bigblueball [dot] com for example. This avoids spam bots from harvesting their email address automatically.
Any thoughts on the concept of using the forum to manage invitations? Suggestions or ideas?
January 11, 2006 at 10:47 pm #135749MartinBradleyMemberI agree with your idea about using a seperate sub-forum for Windows Live Messenger. It should certainly avoid confusion and make for one definitive section for all things WLM.
January 11, 2006 at 10:57 pm #135739Jeff HesterKeymasterI know MSN Messenger isn’t my forum, but be aware that anything that says Windows Live Messenger Invite, brings in users like crazy, not that that is a bad thing, but do we want people to come here just for the invite and never come back again? I don’t know if that is a good thing or not. heh. Just look at Neowin’s Windows Live Beta forum (which by the way will be competition). The Windows Live Messenger invite topic has reached 361 pages. I remember sunday it was just 280! Yikes.
January 11, 2006 at 11:11 pm #135755MrEggsaladParticipantJust saying, I have like 5 or 4 invites. So if you want to drain me of them, go ahead :p
January 11, 2006 at 11:29 pm #135743Jeff HesterKeymasterWhat a kick… I just checked out Neowin’s forum (I usually don’t visit) and saw they totally ripped our staff badges!
See attached. Look familiar?
January 12, 2006 at 1:01 am #135756MrEggsaladParticipantYeah I saw that…soo…..they enjoy our badges huh? Maybe we make a bigger difference then we think.
January 12, 2006 at 3:15 am #135751SpikeMemberJeff wrote:There are a couple ways around this. If they want to hide their email address in their profile, I can still see it. The downside is that I need to look it up, which is a bit of a PITA. I’d prefer if anyone with invitations could send them…
*Ding Ding Ding* That’s the best way to do it, really. Perhaps have a subforum, and people who -have- invites create a thread, then the number of people respond to that thread. After which, the topic is locked so we don’t get “I have 5 invites” and 30 people respond. :pBy the way, I believe I have 3 Invitations left that I’m willing to give away.
(Damn Neowinians…Jeff, you should have copyrighted those images 😀 )
January 12, 2006 at 10:58 am #135748MartinBradleyMemberJeff wrote:What a kick… I just checked out Neowin’s forum (I usually don’t visit) and saw they totally ripped our staff badges!See attached. Look familiar?
Hmm! Yup, very familiar!
January 12, 2006 at 10:39 pm #135740Jeff HesterKeymasterSarah and I have given away invites in the Invite thread. I think it would be best if perhaps a note can be added or Jeff can edit his post saying which people have received invites. Sarah and I have listed the ones we have sent them to.
Edit: Nevermind it’s a huge mess now with people saying to email them if they want invites. *chuckles*
February 4, 2006 at 1:42 am #135741Jeff HesterKeymasterI was browsing through the mess.be forums and I saw their Windows Live Messenger invite thread. Well mess.be has created a website to make inviting easier called http://www.windowsliveinvite.be/
What you do is enter your name, email address, and how many invites you have and a custom link is created for you. Then you copy that link and they themselves said you can paste anywhere you want, in your website, or other forums so when someone clicks on it, they enter their email and the inviter receives a notification email telling them who wants an invite. Once your invites run out the link becomes inactive.
I was thinking this might be an easier way for people in the WLM invite thread here to receive an invite, thereby eliminating the need of so many posts. For example you could have a topic where those who have invites put up a link and that’s it. I don’t know, maybe there is another way to incorporate this? Seems it could make things easier…Just a thought.
February 4, 2006 at 1:46 am #135757MrEggsaladParticipantMmm…great idea! This will help manage it a bit more, and yes.
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