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The rumour mills online are rife with talk of Facebook Email. Its seems the social networking giant plans to release an email service to its 500 million user base in the coming days. Project Titan has been a “top secret” Facebook operation, with the sole aim of competing with Google’s Gmail and Yahoo! Mail, dubbed a ‘Gmail Killer’. Its likely they have been assisted by Microsoft, as Techcrunch highlighted a couple days ago, Facebook seems to be using Exchange for its email service – See http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/12/facebook-mail-outlook/

Users need to start considering their privacy as Facebook weaves their way into another aspect of your personal lives. Are we truly ready to turn our inboxes over to Facebook? Would Facebook developers get access to your messages? There is no harm in keeping your email communications outside of the social network using Gmail to do so.

The secret email project could help explain the recent dispute between Facebook and Google over Facebook’s unwillingness to allow its users to export their friends lists and their contact info into Gmail.

Google Apps provides a robust, industry tested, messaging platform. We can assist you to setup your organisation on Google Apps, which includes GMail Premier Edition. You could be a large, medium or small business, a family, community or scout troop, all looking for a email system under your organisation domain name (eg. family.com). You should look at Google Apps from Google before you consider Facebook Email, Gmail has been around and tested for a lot longer.

Could they have developed a “full-fledged” email client that would truly compete with Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and other advanced Web-based email services that give you desktop-style features in a browser? We’ll have to wait and see.

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