Facebook to unveil email client at November 15th event?

By on Nov 12, 2010 at 8:05 AM
General November 12, 2010

TechCrunch is reporting that social networking giant Facebook will publicly unveil its “Project Titan” — a web-based email client — to the world at a media event scheduled for Monday, November 15th. The report cites anonymous sources and alleges that the email service will bring @facebook.com email addresses to its users. Irrelevant, but fun and sensational, TechCrunch goes on to write that Project Titan is referred to internally at Facebook as the “Gmail killer.”

Recently, both Google and Facebook have appeared in headlines together as Google now posts the below warning message to its users who try to access Facebook’s Gmail friend-importer. Sounds like things are getting a little icy between the two data-mining giants.

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  • Anonymous

    They better step up from an overhead projector and a bag a bagels this time

  • http://www.twitter.com/b_boogey_xl b_boogey_xl

    I knew it!

    (now they are that much closer to world domination)

  • sirpaul

    Hahahaha…gmail killer. Right.

  • XPBEST

    FACEBOOK REALLY AN IDIOT!!!!!!

  • Donny

    They both own all of our personal information. Liking one over another is like preferring being run over by Honda Vs a Toyota.

    • Anonymous

      With a not-insubstantial amount of effort, you can get a lot of (if not all of) your data out of Google’s hands. Once Facebook has your data, they have it forever.

      There is a difference.

  • Mark

    Facebook is a little late to the party on this one. I’m not switching email addresses. I like my @gmail.com account.

  • http://mindmirror007.blogspot.com Sathya

    I sure don’t want my emails going to Facebook, its bad enough I have enough information at their disposal!

  • serpentor

    haha, is that a real Gmail notice? I like their style.

    I think this could work. I know more people with facebook accounts than use gmail.

    And fb should be able to do something about spam.

  • dyates

    Interesting

  • Neoprimal

    I trust Facebook about 100% less than I trust Google, in addition to that there’s no way I’d have sensitive emails going to @Fb.

  • JasonJ

    I sure as hell wouldn’t want to trust facebook with my sole email acct. Have seen too many people who have had their fb accts hijacked, then gone. That’s why I have a separate acct for fb only.

  • Anonymous

    It’s like Google/Microsoft/Facebook/Apple are all in a huge fight now to see who can be more evil.

    • Anonymous

      Dude I’ll take the turtleneck crew from Curpentino over the pimply faced crook CEO Zuckerburg of Facebook and the creepy rat faced Erik Schmidt of Google any day. Jobs may be a raving control freak lunatic but at least he isn’t creepy looking like Schmidt and doesn’t go around calling his users dumb ass#$%^s in emails like Zuckerburg. Call me paranoid but I’m still waiting for monkey boy Ballmer from M$ to get into the act. Best to my knowledge M$ has been pretty quiet over the last few years when it comes to mining and sharing user data.

  • Dan

    As people have already commented; LOL @ “gmail killer” Yeah, that won’t happen. I will sign up for a facebook email account, log in, turn on forwarding to my Gmail account, and log out forever.

    Gmail is just too good to be replaced. Even my business uses it for enterprise email now.

    • Anonymous

      but why do you want FB to read/store all your emails in perpetuity, including the ones you actively delete? FB data “integrity” is notoriously bad compared to google.

    • Booboolala2000

      Can’t believe that facebook would let you forward anything. They would not benefit from it. Control Freakerburg. I can’t wait to see Google Me. Facebook is getting kinda Walmartish

  • Booboolala2000

    Can you imagine sending an email from your work email to some company that only has a facebook email. You would be bombarded with so much spam. Horrible idea. Plus, you can’t export your contact list. And if this is as poorly implemented as their android app, where you don’t have full usability from within the email client, double fail.

  • QNX Please

    LMAO, would anyone take you serious if you had an @facebook.com email…. I could see the teenie boppers all over this, but anyone over 18 would have to be an idiot.

    • Booboolala2000

      And, just like I was a teenybopper with hotmail, I dropped that for gmail.

      • mjrtom

        good move man

  • http://twitter.com/MattSTKC Matthew H.

    So facebook (and twitter) made email communication seem archaic, but now they want to have facebook email? I don’t get it

  • http://twitter.com/NYPartyHouse NY Party House

    i think its the new questions which is launching, not the email client ..but then again i could be wrong

  • offdayJB

    Google should just buy Facebook. i’d be happier!

  • Anonymous

    NO. I will absolutely NOT use facebook as my email of choice. NO. However, we must be real…It will be a success because facebook is a part of so many people’s lives. It automatically makes a market for it…Great idea. Just as google has somewhat of a hit with buzz.

    The question is, what will set it apart from other email products?
    Why is it the ‘gmail killer’?
    Will it have ‘Spam features?’
    Priority inbox (I love this)?
    Integrated chat/video Chat?
    Integrated with several mobile platforms including Blackberry, Nokia, Android, iOS?
    Translation ability?
    IMAP possiblities?
    Documents? (Awesomer feature)
    Threaded messages (Awesome feature)
    And most of all, who wants email all of the time with every fanzone, invites you to, etc, etc, etc.

    Net of this? Social media changes from one thing to another….

    • XPBEST

      I agree with you that… because Facebook really AN IDIOT!!!.. I really love Gmail than facebook. THATT IT

  • NoFace

    I would never use therir email or anything else, facebook has to offer. Facebook should be sued, they allow people to create accounts under the name of the person they are stalking and harassing, and they allow the harasser to post photos of the person they are harassing, so they can continue harassing and bullying the person, even after facebook has been notified of the situation.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe I’m just getting old but I just don’t understand what the big deal is about Facebook. I didn’t understand what the big deal was/is with Foursquare MySpace, Geocities or MSN communities. Guess I’ve never been attracted to social internet networking sites. A year ago I started using Twitter to see what all the buzz was about. I’ve since started following about 20 or 30 different users on there and the odd time I admit they’ll post something with a link to a interesting article. Most of the time its all useless dribble. Maybe I should try finding better people to follow? Maybe I’m just in the minority when I say I don’t care when someone posts what they had for breakfast or how someones date went last night. I don’t care about when someone goes someplace and checks in on Foursquare. If I’m missing something someone please fill me in and tell me WHATS THE BIG DEAL with all these social networking sites? If truth be known my opinion is they’re all just sham sites designed to mine your data to be sold so they can generate profit. Whats so cutting edge pioneering about sites like that?

    • Bonz.Malone

      No your not missing anything at all. Those sites are pretty much hollow and superficial places of nonsense designed for people to voluntarily give up their information. This in turn is used against the person to the benefit of open and secret organizations to gather what seems to be general informaton, but may in fact prove to be critical to a certain and specific agenda.

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