Facebook has Gmail monster setting free on the planet

Facebook has been working on it for months, but now they appear to be ready to let free their Gmail monster. This is Venture Titan, writes TechCrunch. The full-featured webmail client will give Google some serious competition for industry share within the webmail area.

Gmail killer rumors since Feb

Facebook's current messaging platform can be swapped out with the Gmail killer called Project Titan, Gizmodo says. It could have full POP and IMAP support, and users will receive their own @facebook.com e-mail address. Facebook users will be able to send messages to anybody outside of the Facebook community while including message search capability. Thus, Facebook users could have one less reason to leave Facebook in order to perform basic online tasks. Considering that Facebook has upwards of 500 million active users (as outlined by their Press Room), keeping everyone inside the borders of Facebook is a profitable proposition, indeed.

Project Titan: not just an IM upgrade

As TechCrunch excitedly points out, Project Titan won’t simply be an upgrade to existing message services. It has a lot of power. It could be a webmail client too. However, it appears likely that there could be bugs at launch, as is the case with any new product. Yet experts see a "huge amount of potential.".

Online world all about Facebook

Everyone knows that Facebook dominates the social networking world. Also, it has an excellent micropayments system with the games along with events calendar products and photo storage products. If the Gmail killer Project Titan can cut into Gmail’s webmail market share – and integrate the product seamlessly into its existing platforms – it can be like the smell of napalm in the morning for Mark Zuckerberg and company. It makes sense why Google has been mean to Facebook recently. Especially when considering the freedom of contract data problems. The Gmail killer could possibly be coming quite soon.

Citations

Gizmodo

gizmodo.com/5465353/facebook-eyes-webmail-with-project-titan

TechCrunch

techcrunch.com/2010/11/11/facebook-gmail-titan/

Trade the Trend’s coverage of Project Titan

youtube.com/watch?v=UcdTCsN_bxo