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Facebook announced November 16th plans to revamp its message system.

Facebook plans to integrate email, instant messaging, text messaging, facebook messaging, and facebook chat into one “social inbox.”

Facebook also launched facebook email which provides all 500 million users an @facebook.com email address.

By invitation only…for now.

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seamless messaging

Whether your friends like to e-mail, text, or instant message, all communication is saved in one place.

No more checking multiple devices or inboxes.

Users will get an @facebook.com email address.

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conversation history

All communication with each friends is saved in a history.

The history combines all formats (e-mail, text, instant messaging.)

All communication is saved forever, so you can look back on the all conversations for as long as you have them.

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social inbox

One spot for all your socializing and communication needs.

Friends are ranked according to the amount of socializing done.

Simple way to organize one’s many modes of communication.

Another “other” inbox for email from non-facebook friends.

+facebook email: a comparison.

Microsoft Corp. is currently the largest provider, with 362 million unique visitors in September.

Yahoo with 273 million.

Google's Gmail is growing fast, with 193 million unique visitors in September.

When it launches world-wide in the coming weeks, more than 500 million users of Facebook will have access to the new messaging service.

+ 2020? Will facebook’s messaging kill regular email?

Is facebook a threat to google?

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"The most significant thing about the possibility of a new facebook email system is that facebook would be suddenly moving into the world of productivity, something which until now has been the antithesis of facebook. In essence, a facebook email service would mark a new era for the company, bringing it to the forefront of digital communications.” –All Facebook

“An email client for Facebook goes far beyond the value of a Microsoft Live server (think Hotmail+ if you’re not IT oriented).  Even GMail, for all its great features, doesn’t offer everything you get in Facebook, due to how Facebook provides integration into everything else that makes its network wildly productive for those of us who realize we live in networks.” -Forbes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCrwEvw0dmE

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http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/15/facebook-messaging/

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/11/15/facebook.email/index.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703326204575616672123580274.html

http://blogs.forbes.com/adamhartung/2010/11/16/facebook-why-businesses-need-to-use-it-and-its-new-email-client/?boxes=Homepagechannels

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQWT6R9Rf1w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCrwEvw0dmE