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Facebook Messaging just got better... Facebook lets you send messages direct to email addresses
- run4yourlives 19y agoSpammers rejoice!
- danw 19y agoI gave this a try and it's not what I hoped for. You have to hit a reply button inside the email in order to respond or see attachements. I was hoping facebook would stop linking back to the site and let you reply to the email itself.
- sajidu 19y agoFacebook are directly trying to squash my app: http://apps.facebook.com/webmail/ http://apps.facebook.com/webmail/ It's exactly what you hoped for and what Facebook haven't yet managed to deliver :-)
- danw 19y agoLooks like a nice app there. What I want is api access to facebook messages so that I can write a twitterific style desktop app.
- palish 19y agoI guess they felt pressured by Xobni's plugin.
- jsjenkins168 19y agoThis is the brilliance of the facebook platform. If someone comes up with an innovative idea and releases a facebook application that proves valuable to users, facebook can just build its own version to kill it and then build off its success. Its almost like free R&D. Walled gardens are great.
- palish 19y agoIndeed. If I ever build a platform, the only circumstance I'd ever make someone else's work native to the platform is if I had their full permission, and even then I'd give them full credit.
- Goladus 19y agoWalled gardens are great, but walls keep people out as well as keeping people in. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000052.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000052.html
- albertcardona 19y agoNever mind that keeping conversations inside facebook is what keeps facebook nerwork active and running. The moment proper emailing happens outside, facebook is dead.
- Goladus 19y agoIn other words, it's a huge weakness in their design that is just waiting to be exploited.
- sharpshoot 19y agoWe now need a comment from one of the Xobni team for completeness. Brezina? Adam? Gabor?
- gduffy 19y agoNone of the above (but still what you asked for)! FTFA: "Now you can enter a friend's email address into the To: line ..." Uh oh, Facebook just reinvented SNDMSG ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNDMSG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNDMSG ). I'm shaking in my boots! :) I'll definitely still use "Email me instead".
- brezina 19y agoEmail me instead was just a weekend hack. I made it because I was sick of getting "you have a message" emails. This update from FB doesn't change that. The only thing that annoys me is that they ask for comments on their blog, but they don't publish them. Is it even a blog then?
- budu3 19y agoThey scare me, just like how google scared me when they started. I think they are unto something. Google better watch out for these guys.
- jey 19y agoThat's still stupid, and it still doesn't do what Xobni's app does. This just lets you spam non-FB users from within FB. I want my damn FB messages to go to my inbox, not a note saying "you have an FB message waiting for you if you log into FB"
- damien 19y ago"Facebook lets you send messages direct to email addresses" I'm sorry but... I can't be the only one that laughed while reading this, right?