Zuckerberg is absolutely the man I want to trust with my e-mail.
If you already trust Google with your email, then it cant be that bad.
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#163Zuckerberg is absolutely the man I want to trust with my e-mail.
If you already trust Google with your email, then it cant be that bad.
Google doesn't have a tendency to change their privacy policy and intentionally release private information, while Facebook does.
[EDIT: Changed "the" to "their," and "rules" to "policy," as this makes my sentence both look better and more accurate.]
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Given that email is already free, and spammers can register free email accounts, is that really any authentication?
I expect they'll just drop the requirement, and offer you an @facebook.com email during signup.
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#165I 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.
I wonder, then, if they'll ever enter into web search. It would make sense, given the seeming herd migration of engineers from Google (though I don't know how many were from Search).
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you already trust Google with your email, then it cant be that bad.
Google doesn't have a tendency to change their privacy policy and intentionally release private information, while Facebook does. [EDIT: Changed "the" to "their," and "rules" to "policy," as this makes my sentence both look better and more accurate.]
What about Buzz?
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
The title of their article.
"killer" is journalistic shorthand for "rival", they just want the conflict and the attendant pageviews, they don't care who wins or who is likely to win.
Or if there is even a winner. Sometimes people forget that companies compete with each other and we don't all use the same products from the same companies.
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#170Isn't this the definition of feature creep?
Everything devolves till eventually it can check email. [someone more intelligent than me will find the source of that quote... I'm having a tough morning.]