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If facebook can really deliver a rock solid web mail client, I think they will really be a company to watch in the rest of 1996 and 1997. If they play their cards right they may get snapped up by an industry powerhouse like yahoo or excite@home for eight figures.
If facebook can really deliver a rock solid web mail client, I think they will really be a company to watch in the rest of 1996 and 1997. If they play their cards right they may get snapped up by an industry powerhouse like yahoo or excite@home for eight figures.
You have lots of upvotes, so what you are saying must be interesting. But I can't seem to get it! Can anyone explain what's this about?
It was only Google that really built a killer web-mail client from scratch in-house.
If @facebook.com email addresses have a stronger link to real, non-spammy, non-mass-produced identities than other domains, they could become preferred at many other sites -- a broader version of Facebook Connect.
Wrong -- your FB email address will likely have the same prefix as your vanity URL. Guess that that means? Spam bots know your email address already.
If facebook can really deliver a rock solid web mail client, I think they will really be a company to watch in the rest of 1996 and 1997. If they play their cards right they may get snapped up by an industry powerhouse like yahoo or excite@home for eight figures.
You have lots of upvotes, so what you are saying must be interesting. But I can't seem to get it! Can anyone explain what's this about?
(The various iPhone killers, Facebook killers, Google killers, and so on come to mind...)
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I heard that Zuckerberg locked Paul Buchheit in a closet and told him he couldn't come out until he cloned Gmail.
It's being put into 'The Social Network 2: Return of the Lawsuits' as I write.
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That's the scariest thing I've read so far today.
1: My daughter just moved into her own house today. 2: Wow, awesome! I should call them to congratulate her! Whats the new house number? 1: Oh, she doesn't have a landline, she just uses her cell phone. 2: That's the scariest thing I've heard so far today. 1: ???... To the newest generations email is an antiquated technology that has no real use among their peers. Eventually they might get some email address for coll…
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Wrong -- your FB email address will likely have the same prefix as your vanity URL. Guess that that means? Spam bots know your email address already.
I think he means it the other way: e-mail addresses ending with facebook.com could signal "this is a genuine person, not a spammer".
If @facebook.com email addresses have a stronger link to real, non-spammy, non-mass-produced identities than other domains, they could become preferred at many other sites -- a broader version of Facebook Connect.
If I were FB, I'd go with the latter, just so that I can say, "Fmail - it's one better than Gmail!"
Of course, that opens up a whole raft of other issues, not the least of which is F being right next to G (on my US QWERTY keyboard), so folks keying in an address might typo and send emails to the wrong service and/or person.