Also, you can now request an invite here http://www.facebook.com/about/messages/
Facebook announces new Messaging Feature
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#13Am I the only one who sees this as Google Wave Redux? I mean, they even hired the guy who created Google Wave.
I can see this coming : in the news, facebook recycles google's open source wave protocol. In reply, Google closes wave protocol.
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#14Did anyone else notice the Chuckle Brothers in the photo? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuckle_Brothers ) They're down as the picture for Chris Piro. Apologies for those uninterested in 80s and 90s UK kids entertainment, but it just seems so random.
That is absolutely superb. And probably grounds for a lawsuit. Wouldn't think paul and barry would be too litigious. That bloke who always hired them every week is probably well up for it though.
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#15They're not offering email; they're trying to replace email with their own platform.
I hope everyone can see that would be a very bad thing, regardless of how nicely it works.
Email is an open distributed platform where everyone can set up their own mail servers and have control of their own mail. There are tens or hundreds of thousands of email systems out there. To replace that with a system whereby one company has complete control of your messages? Bad.
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#16anyone else find it vulgar to compare his grandmothers loveletters that she has stored in HER attic, with this hoarding of info essentially out of our control?
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#17They're not offering email; they're trying to replace email with their own platform.
Didn't google try this with Wave ?
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#18They're not offering email; they're trying to replace email with their own platform.
If what you say is pure speculation I would very much like to see some evidence from you because Facebook said nothing to that effect. Zuckerberg reaffirmed several times that they intend to work seamlessly with any and all e-mail out there.
This seems to me to be a long overdue and obvious overhaul of their crufty messaging system based on the realization that many people actually do not use e-mail anymore and rely instead on Facebook’s woefully inadequate messaging tools.
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#19The problem with this? (and all other attempts to change "messaging")
Is that it requires users to do something different than they expect or do currently. The goal of having a "unified inbox" won't work unless you natively integrate with all the places where somebody currently sends messages. This requires the user to change their behavior for what? To have a "unified inbox?" I don't think that's compelling enough for user to change their messaging behavior.
Google has the same issue with Google Voice.
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#20So according to their blog:
“All of your messages with someone will be together in one place, whether they are sent over chat, email or SMS. You can see everything you’ve discussed with each friend as a single conversation.
I’m intensely jealous of the next generation who will have something like Facebook for their whole lives. They will have the conversational history with the people in their lives all the way back to the beginning: From “hey nice to meet you” to “do you want to get coffee sometime” to “our kids have soccer practice at 6 pm tonight.” That’s a really cool idea.”
I bet advertisers (Facebook's true customers, let's not forget), overzealous law enforcement officials, not-so-honest-or-nice politicians, and identity thieves, are also intensely jealous of future generations with access to entire records of conversations.