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Aside from the merits of this story, has anything that was branded "killer" by the media actually ended up being even moderately successful? (The various iPhone killers, Facebook killers, Google killers, and so on come to mind...)
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Setting up fake Facebook accounts is trivial. Sure, not as easy, perhaps, as some of the spammier email providers. But if the domain gets that much good karma it would be worth the effort...
1) Facebook can build a simple API which, given an email, tells you the trust rating of that person. "To sign up to this service you need a Facebook trust rating of 10 or more" 2) Emails from facebook can include the trust rating too. How to get the trust rating? That's exactly what social networks are: networks of trust. Pick some obvious trustworthy nodes to start, expand from there with diminishing trust as you ge…
That's, in general, a really good idea. Trouble is; it is something that Google could trivially offer as well (in fact, they have even more metric data to work with).
And the bigger problem is that you'd need to introduce it as a global standard so that email servers and clients would recognize it.
> Emails from facebook can include the trust rating too.
Sadly, that's easily spoofed :)
The problem of trust online is the fundamental "flaw" in the internet (and the reason spam can exist in such a massive form). The person that solves this in a manageable and global way will be printing money.
Aside from the merits of this story, has anything that was branded "killer" by the media actually ended up being even moderately successful? (The various iPhone killers, Facebook killers, Google killers, and so on come to mind...)
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Setting up fake Facebook accounts is trivial. Sure, not as easy, perhaps, as some of the spammier email providers. But if the domain gets that much good karma it would be worth the effort...
1) Facebook can build a simple API which, given an email, tells you the trust rating of that person. "To sign up to this service you need a Facebook trust rating of 10 or more" 2) Emails from facebook can include the trust rating too. How to get the trust rating? That's exactly what social networks are: networks of trust. Pick some obvious trustworthy nodes to start, expand from there with diminishing trust as you ge…
I think Facebook has much much bigger goals than silly gmail killing. It's trying to become the internet for all those who don't know the difference between a browser, web site and the internet. Offering email services is just a small step in that direction.
A lot of people compare Facebook to MySpace, but isn't AOL also a good comparison? Remember all the companies that were AOL keywords. Now they have Facebook pages. AOL has a messenger, now Facebook does. It just strikes me as AOL for the 21st century.
"Facebook is the new AOL" is about as close as Hacker News gets to a meme.
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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".
Have you encountered many spammers with @gmail.com addresses?
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You can get a facebook account without an email address?
In my opinion, this is one of the most interesting questions on here. Facebook's default method of identification is and always has been (since thefacebook.com times) an email address. If they are launching their own email client, it will be silly for them to require you to provide them with another email address in order to use their site. How will they authenticate people? Or they won't and there will be a ton of s…
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?
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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…
I think your comparisons are completely wrong. Is there anything you could do with land lines that you cannot do with mobile phones? No, but there are lots of things email does that Facebook does not do (and vice versa).
That's all I can thing of right now.
Hard to make an email killer. Hotmail, for instance, is still incredibly popular, and will continue to be.