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Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday

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Re: Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday

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Post by ben1040 »

pca wrote: post #117
sliverstorm wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

@gmail.com is no @jdoe.net, but imho it's probably one of the most respectable free email domains.

Hi, one quick question: If you use @jdoe.net because it looks more professional, what would you use for the local part of the address? Does e.g. contact@jdoe.net look better than jdoe@gmail.com? I'm thinking when used for job applications and such.

john@jdoe.net is what I'd use, or if you have an uncommon last name like me and it's available as a domain name, john@doe.net and a blog at john.doe.net.

Re: Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday

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Post by look_lookatme »

shrikant wrote: post #70
gojomo wrote: post #28

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.

Tangent to your point: I suppose @facebook.com will be reserved for employees/contractors only. The Facebook users will probably get either @fbmail.com or @fmail.com. 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 a…

Not sure why you think that, Facebook has always stressed one, real identity. If your facebook URL is facebook.com/john.smith, why should your email not be john.smith@facebook.com? Is there a compelling reason? What would be the difference if john.smith became an employee of facebook?

Re: Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday

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Post by gaius »

gonzo wrote: post #111
krschultz wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I actually got to pose the question (live and in-person), "Isn't Facebook the new AOL?" to Steve Case last week.

And...? Don't leave us hanging!

Re: Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday

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Post by jhrobert »

If Twitter is smart they will provide the smart ultra cheap fast answer: mailto:username@twitter.com with automatic forwarding to your actual email (that they know of already).

No brainer.

I hope that facebook users will use their twitter name to setup their facebook email adress, ie: use it as a very public address.

@jhr

Re: Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday

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Post by pitdesi »

gonzo wrote: post #111
krschultz wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I actually got to pose the question (live and in-person), "Isn't Facebook the new AOL?" to Steve Case last week.

How did he answer?

Re: Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday

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Post by treblig »

allbutlost wrote: post #120
_b8r0 wrote: post #53

Does anyone have any decent info on which free mail service is the most popular? I know a fair amount of people use any mixture of hotmail, gmail and yahoo. Perhaps 'killing gmail' isn't as big as killing hotmail/live/badabingmail.

Fairly recent [1] stats seem to point to: hotmail: 360m+ active accounts yahoo: 275m+ active accounts Gmail in 3rd, followed by AOL webmail [2} Although yahoo! mail seems to have a more active user base as it's ahead on most site ranking systems [3]. Sources: [1] http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/metrics/email-statist... [2] http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/14/gmail-nudges-past-aol-email... [3] http://www.hitwise.c…

This is wild. When Facebook flips the switch, they'll instantly become the largest email service.
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