By Bill Nussey, on February 8th, 2010
According this post on the blog site, TechCrunch, Facebook will be releasing a full-blown Web mail client for its 400,000,000 users (yes, 400 million). Apparently, the internal rally cry at Facebook is to take on Gmail.
For years, the pundits said the proprietary email systems of the early social networks were walled gardens. The benefit was that they restricted [...]
By Bill Nussey, on February 5th, 2010
Our head of products shared this little posting from Facebook’s developer site. In short, it seems that a growing number of Facebook users prefer to be contacted by good ‘ole email rather than Facebook’s proprietary email —Facebook’s application developers have been pressing to get easier access to their email addresses.
Apparently, even the walled gardens of [...]