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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 moshezadka »

gsivil wrote: post #6
samfoo wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is @gmail.com somehow more distinguished?

I think so. It seems more neutral at least. I like facebook for whatever it is but not for professional use.

What do you mean "not for professional use"?

For most professional use, meaning "work", I use work's e-mail system (usually based on Exchange, but I guess that depends on where you work). If I apply to companies, do you think they really care what your address is?

I do some of the interviewing duties at work, and I can tell you my eyes pretty much skip over the e-mail part of the resume. HR needs it to e-mail them "your interview is on the 10/10 at 10:10am", but I doubt the HR person really cares about the address beyond copy'n'pasting it.

(Mind you, if I got work e-mail from a personal address, I would regard this as unprofessional behavior, but it doesn't matter if it's @gmail.com or @faceboook.com)

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

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Post by AgentConundrum »

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…

If I were FB, I'd go with the latter, just so that I can say, "Fmail - it's one better than Gmail!"

Your view is exactly opposite from mine. I viewed it as higher is better (where A is 1 - or 0 if you're binarily inclined). You have regular email, and Google's GMail is two higher.

Facebook using FMail, to me, feels a bit like saying "it's better than plain Jane email, but still not quite as good as GMail."

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

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Post by danieldon »

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.

I'm a 30-somthing urban professional and almost no one I know still uses MSN or AIM. Tons of people use gchat and gmail, including people who used facebook first. Looking at my adium contacts right now, there are more people signed into gchat than facebook chat, only one signed into MSN and AIM.

My wife's friends are the same way. Sure, lots of them have facebook accounts, but all of her friends and business contacts, new and old, email and gchat regularly. She doesn't even have a facebook account yet and has no intention of ever setting one up.

In fact, I feel less pressure to use facebook these days than I did a year or two ago. I don't even go on it anymore other than when I'm working on apps that use the graph api. My wall is filled with stuff I don't care about and if I want to contact someone I email, chat or text them.

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

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Post by JarekS »

Don't you guys think that it makes much more sense for Facebook to allow their users to hook up their email accounts (GMail, Hotmail etc.) via IMAP/POP and just be much better email interface with some extras?

Facebook could give priority sorting (based on your social graph), instant identification (kind of Rapportive features), and really easy to use and powerful address book (your social graph).

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

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Post by smackfu »

ary wrote: post #157

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.

The answer is usually "because I never check my email".

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

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Post by smackfu »

eftpotrm wrote: post #174
slyn wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I may be being slow on the uptake not to have spotted this before, but it hit me last week - 99% of my personal mail - both email and physical mail - is either companies sending out notices (adverts, bills, whatever...) or websites I subscribe to telling me there's something I should see. Direct personal communication has very largely shifted off the platform. Interestingly, that doesn't yet seem to be the case for c…

And Facebook basically still has those things that are the non-personal emails, they just took them out of the mail stream and put them into your wall.

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

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Post by mkramlich »

dotBen wrote: post #62
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?

back in that era all of the successful players - you know, the REALLY successful players like Yahoo, Microsoft and Excite (!) had web-mail clients that were basically startups they acquired. It was only Google that really built a killer web-mail client from scratch in-house.

and the Google client was made mostly by @paul Buchheit, who just left Facebook for YC.

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

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Post by _cbsz »

dinedal wrote: post #140

Something tells me that now I am going to get an email in my Gmail for every email that I get in my facemail telling me I have a new facemail.

This should actually mean I don't need to visit facebook.com anymore if there is indeed POP3 or IMAP access, because (presumably) they will send full messages to Titan rather than the current "you have a new message NOW CLICK ME", and POP3 access to Titan means that I can get Facebook messaging through GMail.

The catch is probably going to be a lack of SMTP...

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