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Techcrunch? What are you talking about?
The title of their article.
Ok so what step did Techcrunch make and what does it have to do with the either Facebook or the title of the article? It just makes little sense.
Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday
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Yes! It may be easy to spoof outside of Facebook, but internally FB routes it's own emails, so when you use Titan to read a message from another Titan email address, Facebook can show you thatbit's genuine, Spammers can create shell accounts, but they can't friend you, so when you receive email from someone you don't know, Facebook can shown you their friends list and public profile, or use that to prioritize your in…
Soo... basically whitelisting functionality. Something that we've had for a long time. Only this is automatic since people are (hopefully) more diligent about their Facebook friends list than their Gmail/Hotmail/Outlook address book.
That's my SWAG, although you can go a little further than your friends list given a social graph. You can score an email based on all sorts of social data. Are you friends? Friends of a common friend? Do you have "likes" in common? Do you belong to common groups? Have you commented on the same thing? And so on.
Any large email player can do some of the same things with a history of emails, but FB could (I am only guessing) do interesting things.
Whitelisting is one approach to the spam problem. Inbox prioritization is an interesting problem as well. Once we have emails in your message box, you could log into FB and find 100 or more emails even after filtering for spam. So... Which emails should appear on your home page and which should wait quietly in your inbox for you to take action?
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If you already trust Google with your email, then it cant be that bad.
I trust I can read my gMail over SSL without someone firesheeping me. Can I do that with Facebook right now?
Incidentally, facebook has SSL as well: https://facebook.com. Unfortunately, it's not the default and there doesn't appear to be any way to force it.
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I trust I can read my gMail over SSL without someone firesheeping me. Can I do that with Facebook right now?
Incidentally, facebook has SSL as well: https://facebook.com . Unfortunately, it's not the default and there doesn't appear to be any way to force it.
Ding.
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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…
Gmail did the same thing, then added mobile number. Now...
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#196called it: http://twitter.com/#!/savraj/status/2138507508 :)
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#197I 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.
So the interesting question to me is, after learning about the history of AOL, why would Facebook want to pursue what on surface seems like a similar strategy.
What's different this time with Facebook? And are the threats to its growth, success and longevity in principle the same as AOL's.
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#199I will be really interested to see this, because as it stands Facebook's messaging interface is barely any better than 2001's Hotmail (you do get a pretty picture with address autocomplete though). Going from where they are now to anywhere close to being a 'Gmail killer' is a humongous step.
I heard that Zuckerberg locked Paul Buchheit in a closet and told him he couldn't come out until he cloned Gmail.
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#200The 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.
I have NO ONE who prefers facebook to email. Then again I'm not a very social person online. I use the Internet primarily for research (self-education, it's like a huge free library on my desk) ... and for business, and business users certainly do not rely on facebook for online communication. I doubt they ever will.