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Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:44:12 +0000

[...] IDEA #74 – FMail (Facebook App) [...]

By: Spike

Spike — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:03:47 +0000

>Big money in email, of course.

I guess you’re right that there’s still room in email considering Zimbra was acquired by Yahoo for $350 million today

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:01:58 +0000

Xobni is generally pretty quiet about what they are doing, but this snippet on their blog does touch what you are talking about:

http://www.xobni.com/blog/2007/08/02/email-me-instead-for-facebook/

I do really like their use of the word “instead”, it’s a good point to the wedge they are trying to insert into facebook messaging.

Great blog BTW, I sympathize with project concept overload, where’s a good job for someone like that?

By: Don Clark - Atlanta, GA

Don Clark - Atlanta, GA — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:50:57 +0000

Im a little confused. I kinda dropped out of the whole myspace thing, but I keep hearing about facebook. Isnt this just a more glorified version of myspace? Guess I need to take a quick look.

By: Wayne Mulligan

Wayne Mulligan — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:46:10 +0000

I don’t know about this one Steve. It would be too open to competition if Facebook created a competing offering that was tied directly into their messaging system. They’re now allowing people to send real e-mails from their FB Inbox. You also have access to all of your friends and it displays them in a very intuitive fashion (similar to GMail). It wouldn’t be hard to begin exposing friend’s/contact’s e-mail addresses as well. The hardest part for FB would be creating a reliable infrastructure so nobody ever loses a piece of mail (from what I’ve read this was one of the biggest concerns for GMail).

Just my two pennies.