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New Facebook Messaging System Announced
Mark Zuckerberg just held a presentation to unveil Facebook's "next generation messaging" system. He repeatedly drove home the idea that "this is not email," nor is it "an email killer." Their plan is to tie together multiple forms of communication — email, texts, social updates, etc. — and blend them into conversations. As users go about their days, interacting with a variety of devices, the communication method automatically updates to whatever is appropriate at the time. If a user receives an email while he's at a desktop, browsing Facebook, it will bring up the message in a Facebook chat window. If the user is browsing on a smartphone, it will bring up the message there, instead. If it's a dumbphone, then a text message can be sent. Another central feature is the idea that conversation histories from multiple sources and different forms of communication can be integrated through Facebook, so that you no longer have to separately root through IM logs, SMS logs, old emails, etc., to see old correspondence. (Users will have the ability to delete these, should they desire.) The last major feature they mentioned is what they call the "social" inbox, which is based on whitelisting. Users will be able to set up primary inboxes which only display communications they definitely want to see, while leaving low-priority messages, spam, and all the other noise typical to email in an inbox they check less frequently. The new system will be rolled out slowly over the next few months.
It also sounds like what AOL is doing with Project Phoenix
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Funny, I would've thought a virtual blowjob would read like:
"mmmph mmph mmmmmmph mmmph mmmmmph DAMMIT I SAID NOT IN THE FACE!"
I think the woosh you might be hearing is the humor of the GP post, bypassing your humor receptors.
But we get it, you're too hip for Facebook. Congratulations, and thanks for letting us know.
Well, except for the fact that its nothing like Google Wave, which was largely a collaborative editing platform.
Its more like googles integrated messaging suite -- with the Gmail integrated interface with chat, email, status updates (Buzz), voice messaging/calling, etc., options for many of those to be delivered to phones via SMS, etc.
How have you not already blocked notifications from those apps? They solved the problem of those things flooding your newsfeed a long time ago.
Do you even use Facebook? You can block all the apps, or block an specific app on a permanent basis, or block a user (so you don't get any of their spammy invites, but can still be friends with them), or do a wide variety of other things to keep the noise down. Don't get me wrong - I'm not a huge fan of Facebook either. But at least understand what its capabilities are before you go attacking what they can (or can't) do.
Zuckerberg made it clear that this service is the result of product research. He said that young people consistently told him email was "too slow." When he dug into their answer they didn't mean slow as in "it takes too long to get to you", they meant they didn't want to have to log into yet another application to read their emails. Among that demographic, a sizable number don't even use a separate email account. They just use SMS on phones and Facebook (either chat or messaging) to communicate. So the main benefits he and "Bozz", his Director of Engineering touted was the reduced friction involved in being able to quickly message through the app you're probably already logged into with the knowledge that your message will get through to the recipient whether or not they use Facebook.
Imagination is more important than knowledge -Einstien
Woosh, he's saying he doesn't have any friends.
But... the future refused to change.
Yeah... except that Google I trust to some degree and facebook I don't.
I'm only on facebook because that's the only way to keep up with some of my friends/relatives who I would otherwise lose contact with. But personally I despise the facebook use model and management and would happily dump it the first chance I got if some other program were to fill it's shoes. I wish animosity toward facebook and success toward google. That's the core difference in my eyes: Corporate scumminess.
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all language nazi's will burne in heil!
Nobody here is going to mention Gmails new priority inbox feature? Essientially the same.
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.