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Facebook to launch alleged "Gmail killer" on Monday?
This morning, TechCrunch speculates that Facebook is going to launch a "Gmail killer" this coming Monday. Facebook has sent out invites to an event in San Francisco where they will supposedly announce it. Its working title is Project Titan, but it will probably change into something much more friendly for mass-consumption (let's just hope they don't call it "FaceMail" or something horrible like that).
Facebook already has a treasure trove of personal information and a huge messaging platform. If they throw email into the mix, this may become a real threat to Gmail. It would also make Facebook even "stickier" than it is – or provide people like me with one more reason to keep their distance from the privacy-invading behemoth.
[It's at times like these that I feel compelled to remind everyone that Hotmail and Yahoo both have more users than Gmail. A "Hotmail killer" would be far more impressive. -Ed]
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Subscribe to commentsHimanshuNov 12th 2010 6:15AM
But how can they?? I mean, they still haven't fixed their pathetic chat servers as of yet.
ScraynNov 12th 2010 6:26AM
Then again, TechCrunch also said that there would be a "Facebook Phone" in the last Microsoft presser when they jointly announced that Facebook would be integrated into Bing.
I only visited TechCrunch a few times until I saw the video of when Leo Laporte (justifiably) blew up in Michael Arrington's ear over a demo phone Leo got.
linsm2010Nov 12th 2010 6:36AM
Maybe they will call it Face String and claim FB members now own the Email Web, and pay a penny for every 100th time you use the email, like another
so called social network that is not so social.
NickNov 12th 2010 6:54AM
They could shorten facemail to fmail or what about an @FML.com extension :)
ScraynNov 12th 2010 4:29PM
Well played, sir! Well played.
HarshNov 12th 2010 7:11AM
You'd have to be a real sad git or 12 to use a facebook email address.
Nikola G.Nov 12th 2010 9:11AM
*lol*
Danny BoyNov 12th 2010 7:20AM
I like gmail for domains since it's free, robust, feature-rich, with good spam filtering and has pop/imap access. Sure beats a lot of for-pay services. Plain vanilla gmail is ok as a disposable email. I also have a hotmail account which I also access via pop. I wish yahoo mail pop access was free (it was free but became a premium extra).
I don't have a facebook account so the scheduled announcement is of little concern to me.
SugarDaddyNov 12th 2010 9:38AM
Gmail is too awesome and Facebook developers are too retarded to ever make something that could compete with gmail on a technical level.
KellieNov 12th 2010 10:18AM
I might not love Google but I trust their ability to protect my email communication a far cry more than I trust Facebook to do, well, anything.
nicbotNov 12th 2010 1:09PM
yeahright@fail.com
NyaRNov 12th 2010 1:56PM
I have a gmail killer: fully functioning imap and thunderbird/k9.
cambridgecateNov 12th 2010 2:55PM
I am done with Facebook. It's boring. The people who post, tag and comment on there the most, are the least interesting and most unhappy people I know. If I could be bothered to log in, I would suspend my account.
Yawn!
Don't go toe-to-toe with Google. Work with them to enhance both experiences or risk becoming the next MySpace.
BenitoNov 15th 2010 7:02AM
I have been wondering for a long time why Facebook keeps proposing friends for me that are ex-business associates. There are no links whatsoever in my social network. Every time I log on I have friend suggestions that i have had peripheral business contact with a long time ago. For a long time I was baffled. How on earth could Facebook keep proposing these people I knew, without any link on my other Facebook friends? I then discovered an unopened email on my gmail account with a backup of my old work related contact list. I have never opened this mail, but Facebook has obviously had access to it and is now using this information rampantly. For those of you who believe Facebook or Gmail can be trusted, forget it and wake up. The case with the google earth people scanning and hacking peoples personal wifi networks and reaping info from their pc's is more than somewhat illegal. Any suggestions of an absolutely secure online email client is appreciated.