Update: March 14, 2008
Sorry guys, it looks like the backdoor has closed. :P I am closing the comments, but if you want to be on the list in case it ever opens again, or in case I get any other invites or goodies to other Web2.0 Applications, just leave your email (I promise not to sell your email or to spam you etc etc).

Thanks for stopping by! :)

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So there’s a bit of a “backdoor” way to get a DropBox invite, and for the moment, it still seems to work. If you’re interested in having an invite, just leave a comment and when you do, make sure you that you leave your email address (where it says to leave an email address — not in the content area) so that I can add you.

What I’ll do is create a single shared folder on my account and “share” this folder with whoever wants an invite. What happens is that everyone who I share this folder with automatically gets an account (please do NOT upload anything to this shared folder!)

I don’t know how long this will work for, as the DropBox team is clearly being deluged with new accounts, and new accounts are being restricted to 5 gig “beta” accounts (when I signed on, it was 10 gigs).

Good luck!

Thanks to a kind invite by Sam Harrelson (via cost per news), I am now in Mash doing … uh, Mashy-type things.

Its quite a lot like Facebook, with a few subtle differences, such as the ability to move around and potentially play with *other* “friends” profiles.  Another interesting thing is that you have some control over how your profile appears, something that’s quite standardized in Facebook.  Its almost MySpace-y, to be honest.

My own profile is over here: http://mash.yahoo.com/tony_hung100

If you’re interested in trying it out (and being my “friend” — wow, did that sound sad or what?) leave a comment with your real email address (because its needed for me to set it up) and I’ll get around to adding a profile for you (i.e. “sending you an invite”) as soon as I can.

So, I finally got on Pownce yesterday, and I need some help testing it out as I have no friends — on Pownce.

Pathetic, isn’t it? :)

Anyway, I have 6 invites to get things going, so I was hoping to start a chain-invite thing going, where I could invite the first few people who leave comments and emails — and then THEY invite the next few and so on ad infinitum.

At any rate its impossible for me to test the thing out without messaging people and flexing its muscles.

If you’re interested, just leave your name and email (although you may want to do it like this –> anthony {dot} hung {at} gmail {dot} com) and we’ll get things going.