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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(127, 0, 127); font-size: 12px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><div><div>Hey all,</div><div><br></div><div>Just an interesting new phase in Facebook with the new message system.</div><div><br></div><div>They've enhanced the message systems with a new mashup view, but also have turned on email for Facebook accounts.</div><div><br></div><div>A while ago they announced Facebook urls: facebook.com/eintellego</div><div><br></div><div>And in the last couple of days, when you turn on your new messaging system, they issue an email address related to your short-link above. So as of now I have the <a href="mailto:eintellego@facebook.com">eintellego@facebook.com</a> address which can have email sent to it and replied.</div><div><br></div><div>Why is this important?</div><div><br></div><div>Well, this would be the first very direct shot across the bow at Google and will create, almost instantly a competitor to Gmail with a potential of 500 million users. That is quite interesting operationally to ausnog members from a consideration perspective.</div><div><br></div><div>What we're about to see is a domain (facebook.com) with almost no users, turn into one of the biggest senders and receivers of emails world wide.</div><div><br></div><div>Immediate things that come to mind are the possible abuses of applications sending email on your behalf.</div><div><br></div><div>Worthy of discussion I think.</div><div><br></div><div>Btw… I am not saying this is good or bad… Just very interesting.</div><div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">...Skeeve<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; 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