Facebook's "Gmail Killer" Project Titan a Full Featured Webmail Product

Recently Facebook flicked the switch on another redesign of its home page. It was a pretty significant change when compared to their previous redesigns. TechCrunch reported, the social networking company is rumored to be currently developing a fully featured webmail service named Project Titan. Facebook is completely rewriting their messaging product and is preparing to launch a fully featured webmail product in its place, according to a source with knowledge of the product. To celebrate this the homepage has been redesigned, placing links to games and applications on the left of the screen. A top-screen menu bar provides access to your latest messages, notifications and requests. This Project Titan is said to be not only a webmail service, a complete rewrite of the current messaging service which the company uses. After complaints about their current messaging service, believing that it is too slow and frustrating to access when almost everybody uses email nowadays, you can receive emails when you get Facebook messages, but you still have to go through the site to interact with people. Facebook aims to make their social network the best possible experience it can be, for various obvious reasons, and this improvement will be extremely welcome.

Project Titan, while being a webmail service featured on Facebook, will have a few additions to make it much more accessible to those who use messaging regularly. First of all, you'll get your own email address; it'll be your vanity name (the one you chose for your Facebook.com/username address) at Facebook.com. Project Titan will also provide POP and IMAP support for the addresses, meaning that you'll be able to add the account to various third party services, and even mobile devices, should you desire to. In short, it'll be exactly like a regular email address, except it'll go through Facebook. Even MySpace moved away from their aging messaging platform to a true webmail service in 2008 (albeit one that lacked POP or IMAP support). Facebook says more than 60 million people log in to 80,000 third party websites each month via Facebook Connect.

Project Titan is said to be called a "Gmail killer" unofficially, which may be a pretty bold statement, though you can be sure that if the rumors are true, the project certainly won't be unpopular. Hopefully the company will have some official news on this soon, though it'll most likely be a few months away yet.

Facebook also turn into his sixth year. After Started by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University, Facebook's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 350 million active users worldwide, and is slated to hit 400 million users this week.

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