Around the United States today, a few thousand lucky people are trying out Facebook's newest step in its quest to be the site you never leave. It's roll-out day for the company's new @facebook.com all-inclusive messaging system. So what does Mark Zuckerberg have in store for us? All Together Now The main message from Zuckerberg and director of engineering Andrew Bosworth: Old-school email, with formalities like bcc's and subject lines, is out. An informal mish-mash of communication is in.
Facebook's messaging system is different than any other email service (namely, Gmail) in that it doesn't just collect email. Texts and SMS, IMs and chat, emails and Facebook messages--"they don't work that well together," explained Bosworth. Now, they'll all be assembled into one thread, blurring the lines of what an "inbox" is. So, rather than having your texts stored on your phone, and your IMs stored on iChat, and your emails stored on Yahoo, Facebook will compile your messages into one place. [Fast Company]
