8 Comments »I have now heard from a couple of sources that Facebook is hard at work developing a Facebook email application. A few of the features include integration of external email addresses, no size limitation, contact groups so that you can broadcast your emails kind of like a blog post and any image included in your emails can quickly be tagged and added to your Facebook galleries. This would make a lot of sense given that Facebook is rapidly becoming a phone book like directory. It’s just like a phone book but instead it is a “message book” or rather a “Face book.” I am capable of looking up practically anybody and shooting them a message. This has flattened the barriers to communication in that anybody can now look you up and send you a message even if they don’t know you. Just yesterday, ZDNet suggested that Facebook could bring about the end of email. I partially agree in that I have no spam whatsoever in my Facebook message inbox whereas with my email account I have the occasional spam message (which is currently being effectively filtered by Gmail). Also, around 10% to 20% of my communication now takes place on Facebook. Will Facebook launch the Gmail killer? That would truly be an impressive feat. The funny thing here is that there still is email provider wars taking place. I would have imagined this to have ended years ago. I guess this will end when total social integration within a single framework takes place. Looks like Facebook is working hard to develop that framework.
Facebook Launching Email Application
Posted by Nick O'Neill on July 20th, 2007 11:16 AM
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Facebook has a long way to go in the features they offer compared to Gmail. With the current inbox system there is no search offered.
Since the launch of my application my inbox mail has skyrocketed. The other day I wanted to go back a couple months and find a message. The only way for me to do it was to scan back manually looking for the right one.
If they add in a Gmail-esque search feature that would be a huge help.
Facebook has a long way to go in the features they offer compared to Gmail. With the current inbox system there is no search offered.
Since the launch of my application my inbox mail has skyrocketed. The other day I wanted to go back a couple months and find a message. The only way for me to do it was to scan back manually looking for the right one.
If they add in a Gmail-esque search feature that would be a huge help.
Nick,
Who are your couple of sources that they are actually telling you feature designs? This sounds highly speculative. When would they have this?
You should make sure you have something to back this up otherwise this is a facebook rumors & wishlist blog.
Ian
Nick,
Who are your couple of sources that they are actually telling you feature designs? This sounds highly speculative. When would they have this?
You should make sure you have something to back this up otherwise this is a facebook rumors & wishlist blog.
Ian
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I am interested in a business that would need to connect to people (not spam) via email. Does Facebook offer the ability that I could just send to the Facebook account instead of sending the message to email of the person ?
I read about Facebook connect but not sure if this is the functionality available with this.