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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 metageek »

chopsueyar wrote: post #129
fauigerzigerk wrote: post #97

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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).

Send/receive faxes to/from a dedicated fax amchine, use an analog modem or coupler, connect multiple extensions to the same line, connect an Asterisk box, play DTMF tones into the receiver and have it dial, pulse dial by toggling the 'hang-up' switch... That's all I can thing of right now.

>connect an Asterisk box

I'm pretty sure Asterisk can use a cellphone over Bluetooth.

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

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Post by jonknee »

treblig wrote: post #139
allbutlost wrote: post #120

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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.

They'll actually have to get people to use it before being large (the whole "active" part). I'll never use it and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

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

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Post by reazalun »

NZ_Matt wrote: post #67
slyn wrote: post #59

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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…

This is very true. I'm 20 and I've never used my personal email regularly and I'm sure most of my friends haven't either. We've always used MSN or AIM and more recently Facebook to keep in touch.

So you never purchase anything online?

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

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Post by shrikant »

look_lookatme wrote: post #134
shrikant wrote: post #70

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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?

My biggest data point is Google.

I'm google.com/profiles/, but reached at @gmail.com. I suppose Googlers get a @google.com email ID.

Similarly for Microsoft.

I suppose AOL and Yahoo! could be counter-points, though...

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

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Post by chrisaycock »

samfoo wrote: post #4
gsivil wrote: post #3

it seems convenient within Facebook but I would not like using a @facebook.com email address for serious communication. Imagine applying for college with such an address.

Is @gmail.com somehow more distinguished?

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/email_address

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

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Post by fauigerzigerk »

chopsueyar wrote: post #129
fauigerzigerk wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Send/receive faxes to/from a dedicated fax amchine, use an analog modem or coupler, connect multiple extensions to the same line, connect an Asterisk box, play DTMF tones into the receiver and have it dial, pulse dial by toggling the 'hang-up' switch... That's all I can thing of right now.

True. I was talking personal use only because that's where mobiles have replaced land lines.

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

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Post by ary »

The sad thing is that facebook itself is already somewhat of a "Gmail killer." I have a ton of people that will only contact me through facebook. When I ask why they don't use email they usually don't have an answer. The ones that do mumble something about convenience.

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

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Post by brandnewlow »

look_lookatme wrote: post #128
paraschopra wrote: post #61

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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?

Trotsky has lots of upvotes because he or she managed rev the Hacker News Facebook Hate Machine with a bit of humor.

Can we get a trademark on the HNFHM?

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

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Post by steveklabnik »

mistermann wrote: post #149
steveklabnik wrote: post #101

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Facebook Credits don't count?

Not familiar with those....are they interchangeable for money? I'd like to be able to easily send $5 to a friend via facebook, or 25 cents to the author of a blog post I enjoyed. Others have tried the micropayments, but it needs a heavyweight to really pull it off. Maybe facebook can buy a startup that has it nicely figured out technically, but can't get traction.

You buy them with real money, and can spend them within applications on Facebook. It's not usable for anything outside of Facebook, or directly sending stuff to your friends.

But it's still the beginnings of an entry into the market.

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

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Post by cyanbane »

How long till we see cellphones (not the purported FB phone) utilize just one source for your contacts? I just got a WP7 phone and had to merge all my contacts in from multiple sources, if instead MS just piggybacked off FB only, it would make things far easier for the end user. Also FB could claim "portability" to some degree (even if just with their partner MS)
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