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GMail Beta started out invite-only, and was that way for quite a while, thought by the time I got into it, I didn't have any friends who needed an invite.

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True, but Gmail is email, which meant you could still interact with everyone else.

I got an early invite to GMail, and it was pretty much functional out of the box. I wish I could say the same of Wave.

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