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Facebook Launches All-in-One “Social Inbox”: Tech News « — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:03:28 +0000

[...] In many ways, what Facebook is trying to do seems a lot like Google’s ill-fated Wave service: namely, a single product that combines different forms of communication — email, instant messaging, live chat, and so on. The benefit for Facebook is that it already has 350 million users who are addicted (on some level at least) to the social network’s messaging system, and many of them are probably like the high-school students that Zuckerberg talked to, and don’t use email. A unified inbox could give Facebook an even tighter relationship with those users — particularly in mobile, as Om pointed out. [...]

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omis.me » Weekly Rewind: Five Posts I Wrote — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:29:52 +0000

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By: rmaenza

rmaenza — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 05:46:36 +0000

This is good for all Facebook users, plus he will get more of the market share. The Android platform seems more logical now but since Apple’s iPad it will probably be first. mainstreethost

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:06:05 +0000

Ah, Meebo…?

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 11, 2010 — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:40:33 +0000

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By: sam

sam — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:00:35 +0000

I think it would be useless. Services like eBuddy or Trillian would do the job better, since one still have friends on let’s say MSN, gTalk and AIM. It’s very comfortable to combine services like this in GUI. But of course, one would not have the integration with the rest of Facebook features.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:49:22 +0000

TomN,

Please see my update to the story. I admit, I should have been clearer when writing about “chat” which I meant more than just basic one-on-one instant messaging in iPhone app. And this is beyond just iPhone. Android and other platforms need to be factored into the conversation.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:48:21 +0000

I updated the post with additional clarifications. Sorry about not being clear enough.