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Facebook social inbox: Disaster for enterprise email
What can enterprise messaging developers learn from Facebook's email 'Project Titan'?
By Richi Jennings. November 17, 2010.
Monday's Facebook Messaging announcement wasn't quite what many had expected. It's not the latest step in some naively-imagined death-march of email. But it does have some interesting things to say to today's email developers, in enterprises and smaller businesses everywhere. Let's take a look, in The Long View...
What can enterprise email developers and administrators learn from these new ideas? Essentially, Facebook announced a revamped messaging system that:
- replaces a subject-based list of email with a people-based list;
- unifies some media types, hinting at more to come;
- archives messages permanently.
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