I hope everyone can see that would be a very bad thing, regardless of how nicely it works.
Email is an open distributed platform where everyone can set up their own mail servers and have control of their own mail. There are tens or hundreds of thousands of email systems out there. To replace that with a system whereby one company has complete control of your messages? Bad.
If what you say is pure speculation I would very much like to see some evidence from you because Facebook said nothing to that effect. Zuckerberg reaffirmed several times that they intend to work seamlessly with any and all e-mail out there.
This seems to me to be a long overdue and obvious overhaul of their crufty messaging system based on the realization that many people actually do not use e-mail anymore and rely instead on Facebook’s woefully inadequate messaging tools.
Since most of my non tech friends send me "email" through Facebook messages as it is, I suspect you are right and this platform will take off faster then Wave!
IMAP are POP3 optional. /var/spool/mail/$USER or ~/mobx were enough some time ago, although right now not everyone is running their own mail (smtp) server.
The good news is that lots of people are going to be able to send and receive email messages using email adresses.
Both these messages and adresses are rfc2821 compliant.
By Metcalfe's law, this can only increase the value of the email network.
Remember, first AOL was an island, then AOL offered an email gateway, and soon enough AOL became irrelevant.
I don't know if the same is going to happen with Facebook, but if it happens, I won't be surprised, for Facebook is like a second wave AOL, a much bigger wave than the first one, because this time it's like "everybody" participates, not just the early adopters.
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They're not offering email; they're trying to replace email with their own platform.
I hope everyone can see that would be a very bad thing, regardless of how nicely it works.
Email is an open distributed platform where everyone can set up their own mail servers and have control of their own mail. There are tens or hundreds of thousands of email systems out there. To replace that with a system whereby one company has complete control of your messages? Bad.
If what you say is pure speculation I would very much like to see some evidence from you because Facebook said nothing to that effect. Zuckerberg reaffirmed several times that they intend to work seamlessly with any and all e-mail out there.
This seems to me to be a long overdue and obvious overhaul of their crufty messaging system based on the realization that many people actually do not use e-mail anymore and rely instead on Facebook’s woefully inadequate messaging tools.
Since most of my non tech friends send me "email" through Facebook messages as it is, I suspect you are right and this platform will take off faster then Wave!
Didn't google try this with Wave ?
Please define "email" :)
To me, an email is basically an email address.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt
I'm going to be totally anal now. RFC 5321 obsoleted 2821 in 2008. Also, SMTP isn't the same as e-mail. Just like IMAP isn't the same as e-mail.
IMAP are POP3 optional. /var/spool/mail/$USER or ~/mobx were enough some time ago, although right now not everyone is running their own mail (smtp) server.
So is SMTP... How about LMTP?
IMO "email" is a combination of the various transport technologies and the message format.
That's not what your mom or dad would say! ;)
The good news is that lots of people are going to be able to send and receive email messages using email adresses.
Both these messages and adresses are rfc2821 compliant.
By Metcalfe's law, this can only increase the value of the email network.
Remember, first AOL was an island, then AOL offered an email gateway, and soon enough AOL became irrelevant.
I don't know if the same is going to happen with Facebook, but if it happens, I won't be surprised, for Facebook is like a second wave AOL, a much bigger wave than the first one, because this time it's like "everybody" participates, not just the early adopters.