Facebook may launch e-mail services
Nov 13, 2010
Facebook, whispered for some time to planning their own email service, finally may be about to do it in a move that sent a shot in the bow of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
TechCrunch, a leading technology blog Silicon Valley, reported Friday that the network plans to announce a service of Web-based email address complete with@facebook.com at an event in San Francisco on Monday.
Agence France-Presse and other media have been invited to the event on Facebook, but have not said what is coming. Facebook has more than 500 million members worldwide and offers a personal email set a powerful challenge to the mail order giant - Microsoft's Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and Google Gmail. Hotmail currently has the most users, 361.7 million in September, according to tracking firm comScore online, followed by Yahoo with 273.1 million and Gmail, with 193.3 million. TechCrunch said Facebook planned service Web-based email is part of a secret project known as "Project Titan" that is "unofficially referred to internally as" murderer of Gmail. '"
"And while it can only be in the early stages of its launch coming Monday, is a huge amount of potential here," said Jason Kincaid from TechCrunch. The report comes amid recent fighting a battle between Facebook and Google to exchange data and Silicon Valley engineering talent.Google last week blocked from Facebook Gmail import contact information through Palo Alto, the refusal of the network based in California to exchange and share data about their users. And The Wall Street Journal reported that Internet search king Google, in an attempt to stop defections to rival technology companies like Facebook, has all its 23,000 employees a wage increase of 10 percent. According to the newspaper, about 10 percent of Facebook employees are veterans of Google. Kincaid TechCrunch and others noted the benefits of Facebook could lead to a battle of e-mail. "Facebook is the world's most popular photo products, the product most popular events, and will soon have a local product is so popular," said Kincaid. "You can modify the design of their web mail client to display the contents of each of these in a perfect manner.
"And there is the social aspect: Facebook knows who your friends and how close it is connected with them, but that is probably a pretty good job to find out what personal email messages you want to read more and prioritize accordingly "he said. Gadget blog Gizmodo said the prospect of an email service should Facebook Google, Yahoo and Microsoft "very nervous." "Facebook mail could be a murderer, not only for its instant size potential, but because of its natural advantage in making email more useful," said Jesus Diaz Gizmodo blogger. "It can actually become the mail service 100 percent only useful out there, just e-mail shows that really matters," said Diaz. "Since Facebook knows how to interact with all your contacts, it would be perfectly able to separate what is important from what is not." "Of course, not all Facebook users will jump in your car email," said Diaz. "But more likely is that a large percentage of the user base."
TechCrunch, a leading technology blog Silicon Valley, reported Friday that the network plans to announce a service of Web-based email address complete with@facebook.com at an event in San Francisco on Monday.
Agence France-Presse and other media have been invited to the event on Facebook, but have not said what is coming. Facebook has more than 500 million members worldwide and offers a personal email set a powerful challenge to the mail order giant - Microsoft's Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and Google Gmail. Hotmail currently has the most users, 361.7 million in September, according to tracking firm comScore online, followed by Yahoo with 273.1 million and Gmail, with 193.3 million. TechCrunch said Facebook planned service Web-based email is part of a secret project known as "Project Titan" that is "unofficially referred to internally as" murderer of Gmail. '"
"And while it can only be in the early stages of its launch coming Monday, is a huge amount of potential here," said Jason Kincaid from TechCrunch. The report comes amid recent fighting a battle between Facebook and Google to exchange data and Silicon Valley engineering talent.Google last week blocked from Facebook Gmail import contact information through Palo Alto, the refusal of the network based in California to exchange and share data about their users. And The Wall Street Journal reported that Internet search king Google, in an attempt to stop defections to rival technology companies like Facebook, has all its 23,000 employees a wage increase of 10 percent. According to the newspaper, about 10 percent of Facebook employees are veterans of Google. Kincaid TechCrunch and others noted the benefits of Facebook could lead to a battle of e-mail. "Facebook is the world's most popular photo products, the product most popular events, and will soon have a local product is so popular," said Kincaid. "You can modify the design of their web mail client to display the contents of each of these in a perfect manner.
"And there is the social aspect: Facebook knows who your friends and how close it is connected with them, but that is probably a pretty good job to find out what personal email messages you want to read more and prioritize accordingly "he said. Gadget blog Gizmodo said the prospect of an email service should Facebook Google, Yahoo and Microsoft "very nervous." "Facebook mail could be a murderer, not only for its instant size potential, but because of its natural advantage in making email more useful," said Jesus Diaz Gizmodo blogger. "It can actually become the mail service 100 percent only useful out there, just e-mail shows that really matters," said Diaz. "Since Facebook knows how to interact with all your contacts, it would be perfectly able to separate what is important from what is not." "Of course, not all Facebook users will jump in your car email," said Diaz. "But more likely is that a large percentage of the user base."
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