The address FB.com will become the site of Facebook employee email addresses, and everyone else who signs up for the service will score an address of @facebook instead of @fb.com.
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Don’t want to wait for Facebook to send you an invite to Facebook email? We have one invite available. Rather than having to choose who gets it, we’re auctioning off the invite. 100% of the proceeds will go directly to charity.
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If there’s anything to take away from today’s announcement from Facebook, it’s that the company has not released a direct competitor to Gmail or any other messaging provider. Instead, Facebook’s Social Inbox is a messaging platform for interacting with the people you care about.
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In the social battle between Facebook and Google, tomorrow may serve as the company’s defining moment, marking the release of the final defense against Google who is also preparing to unleash their final assault on Facebook. While there is an ongoing discussion about the war over search, there’s a more significant short-term play: if Facebook can convince Gmail users to leave the service and use a Facebook-created mail service, Google could end up looking extremely vulnerable.
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Yahoo! has launched a new version of its free email service with better social media connectivity.
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Last week Kristen Nicole, the other writer of this site, temporarily lost almost 1,000 messages from her Facebook inbox. This week other users have been reporting the issue including Stefanos Kofopoulos who received multiple errors stating that “Sorry, the contents of this thread are temporarily unavailable. Please check back later.” Many users have hundreds if not thousands of messages now on Facebook and are becoming increasingly reliant on the service for daily communication.
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