Facebook Email

Facebook is out with a new email service..

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40197663/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

 

The product contains three pieces:

Seamless messaging - Instead of dealing with the dilemma of reaching people via e-mail or direct message or SMS, all of these will be combined, so that you'll be able to reach someone the way they prefer to be reached, without you having to think about it. "All you need is a person and a message," said one of the product managers.

Conversation history - All communiques between friends will be logged, regardless of their format, so that you can browse all sorts of exchanges between you and your individual peeps.

Social inbox - Since they know your friends, and those friends of friends, Facebook will apply social filters to the e-mail inbox, prioritizing real humans who you like over spambots you'd rather avoid.

It looks like it has announced another Google Wave, only difference was Google clearly defined the problem then, all collaborations at one place ( superset of email functionality). Wave was a solution in search of a problem. Wave also taught everyone that putting complicated feature set frightens people away. FB guys might do it bit by bit. FB email seems to be a reflection of how a large section of FB users are already using the service. It probably reflects how people are already using FB messages – as a replacement for email. As of now FB seems to be a big threat to both Google and Microsoft.

 

Facebook Chat  -- GTalk – MSN Messenger

Facebook Messaging – GMail -- Hotmail

Facebook Ads – Google Adwords -- AdCenter

Facebook Places - Bing Local Search

Facebook social search -- (part of) Bing Search

Facebook developer API – Google App Engine API -- Azure + various SDKs.

Facebook Money -- Points

Facebook enabled-ISVs (Farmville et-al) --  Xbox ecosystem

Facebook Connect -- LiveID.

 

FB will lead dominate the web over Google within the next five years. It will become and already is starting to penetrate every single aspect of the web and will continue to eat away at Google’s advertising revenues as it understands more and more about people.  Watch out Google, Facebook is coming