On Monday they will launch @ facebook.com?
Back in February 2010, Michael Arrington wrote that in the depths of Facebook, according to rumors, they began to develop a new project (codename Project Titan). The whistleblowers reported that this is nothing more than a webmail interface.
Today, conversations have reappeared. Facebook invites journalists to a presentation, the topic of which is not announced in advance. The presentation will take place on Monday. Arrington has information that the presentation will be devoted to that very Project Titan.
The service should be good. Still, Facebook works for Facebook, Paul Bakhit , the founder and lead developer of Gmail (he was once the 23rd Google employee). They say Zuckerberg locked him in the office and said that until he cloned Gmail, he would not get out of there.
On the one hand, the launch of an email web service on a social networking site looks rather strange. Still, social networks with a built-in communication system are considered to be an effective substitute for “outdated” e-mail. On the other hand, as practice shows, despite the emergence of all these new technologies, good old e-mail does not even think of dying.
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In addition, the overall development strategy of this portal speaks in favor of a webmail interface on Facebook. They already have the most popular photohosting on the Internet and the most popular organizer. That is, they are expanding towards a full-fledged web platform for communication services. E-mail fits perfectly into this set of services, it is easy to integrate with the rest.
Well, another argument is obvious to all who follow the latest developments around Google and Facebook. In a situation close to hostilities, the opening of the Facebook email service, which looks like a “Gmail killer”, is a painful blow to a competitor.
Facebook .com mail can become the default for millions of teenagers who today have social media accounts, but they don’t use email (you can register on the site using your mobile phone number ).
By the way, as recently as September 30, 2010 it became known that a certain company had bought the domain FB.com. The agent of the deal was Mark Monitor (by a strange coincidence, it is this firm that manages the domain names of Facebook).
Facebook is already using the fb.me domain to shorten links. Perhaps, for mailing addresses, in addition to the standard facebook .com, they will also offer @ fb.com.
Today, conversations have reappeared. Facebook invites journalists to a presentation, the topic of which is not announced in advance. The presentation will take place on Monday. Arrington has information that the presentation will be devoted to that very Project Titan.
The service should be good. Still, Facebook works for Facebook, Paul Bakhit , the founder and lead developer of Gmail (he was once the 23rd Google employee). They say Zuckerberg locked him in the office and said that until he cloned Gmail, he would not get out of there.
On the one hand, the launch of an email web service on a social networking site looks rather strange. Still, social networks with a built-in communication system are considered to be an effective substitute for “outdated” e-mail. On the other hand, as practice shows, despite the emergence of all these new technologies, good old e-mail does not even think of dying.
')
In addition, the overall development strategy of this portal speaks in favor of a webmail interface on Facebook. They already have the most popular photohosting on the Internet and the most popular organizer. That is, they are expanding towards a full-fledged web platform for communication services. E-mail fits perfectly into this set of services, it is easy to integrate with the rest.
Well, another argument is obvious to all who follow the latest developments around Google and Facebook. In a situation close to hostilities, the opening of the Facebook email service, which looks like a “Gmail killer”, is a painful blow to a competitor.
Facebook .com mail can become the default for millions of teenagers who today have social media accounts, but they don’t use email (you can register on the site using your mobile phone number ).
By the way, as recently as September 30, 2010 it became known that a certain company had bought the domain FB.com. The agent of the deal was Mark Monitor (by a strange coincidence, it is this firm that manages the domain names of Facebook).
Facebook is already using the fb.me domain to shorten links. Perhaps, for mailing addresses, in addition to the standard facebook .com, they will also offer @ fb.com.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/108028/
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