Facebook is completely rewriting their messaging product and is preparing to launch a fully featured webmail product in its place, according to a source with knowledge of the product. Internally it’s known as Project Titan. Or, unofficially and perhaps over-enthusiastically, the Gmail killer.
Facebook messaging has been the bane of users’ existence for years. My first public gripe was in 2008, when I said that urgent changes were needed. The biggest problem is simply deleting old emails. It takes so long that I have thousands of unread and read but not deleted messages in my inbox.
Kilde: Michael Arrington @ TechCrunch
Facebook er åbenbart ved at lancere sin egen webmail, hvilket ikke er overraskende, når man ser på kvaliteten af den inbox, som følger med servicen. Det interessante ved dette rygte er at mens Microsoft, Google og Yahoo har baseret store dele af deres sociale services på webmail, har Facebook lancerer servicen før mail komponenten.
MySpace gjorde det samme for et stykke tid siden, men deres webmail understøtter hverken POP3 eller IMAP protokollerne. Denne understøttelse finder man i forskellige udgaver både hos Yahoo, Google og Microsoft.
Rygtet siger at Facebook understøtter både POP3 og IMAP, hvilket giver ret god mening. Angiveligt bliver ens email vanityurl@facebook.com, så hvis man ikke har scoret sig en unik vanity URL kan man ende med en ret mærkelig email adresse.