I was in USA Today!

Ok, so apart from it being such a crappy newspaper, this is pretty exciting. About a week ago I received an email from AP reporter Rachel Metz who had read one of my blog posts about beta testing and Inviteshare. She requested a phone interview and while I was slightly confused as to why my opinion merited a journalist’s time, I was more than happy to blab about the wide world of web. She asked me about my thoughts on the site’s invite trading service, on Michael Arrington, as well as Joost and GrandCentral.

Eli Horne, a 21-year-old freelance Web designer in New York, has also gotten into InviteShare. So far, he has sent out about 25 invitations to various sites and gotten access to about eight new ones, including GrandCentral, he said.

Horne thinks the site — which lists the most popular beta services on its front page — is also a way to keep tabs on what’s hot online.

“If I were trying to launch a product, I would try to get it listed on there,” he said.

Click here for the full USA Today article, or do a Google News search for “Eli Horne Inviteshare.”