This is probably going to change the face of how everyone competes on the net for emails and messaging systems. Will Facebook become the next messaging and email service? All our contacts are already there…that makes me wonder though…will Documents or Calendar be next? And can I sync it to my phone….that’ll be the big one for me to switch over completely…
From TechCrunch….”Back in February we wrote about Facebook’s secret Project Titan — a web-based email client that we hear is unofficially referred to internally as its “Gmail killer”. Now we’ve heard from sources that this is indeed what’s coming on Monday during Facebook’s special event, alongside personal @facebook.com email addresses for users.
This isn’t a big surprise — the event invites Facebook sent out hinted strongly that the news would have something to do with its Inbox, sparking plenty of speculation that the event could be related to Titan. Our understanding is that this is more than just a UI refresh for Facebook’s existing messaging service with POP access tacked on. Rather, Facebook is building a full-fledged webmail client, and while it may only be in early stages come its launch Monday, there’s a huge amount of potential here….” Read more