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Facebook Announcement : Seamless messaging system

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I am currently listening to Mark Zuckerberg live and blogging this post. Today Facebook at SFO announced the release of Seamless messaging that will be available only via invite now and will gradually be released over period of next few months. After F8 conference and release of Social graph one great change that has happened in facebook culture is that they have started announcing new features on their official blog around same time when they are having press conference/announcements

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Mark Zuckerberg announcing the release of Facebook's Seamless Messaging System

  1. Seamless Messaging – Modern messaging System. In nutshell Email ( all email services including Gmail), facebook messages, chat, text messages can work on same thread regardless of how the sender has sent you a message. For example you receive a message on fb and if you are logged in to your chat then you will get this message inside chat. Everyone will have @facebook.com email id.
  2. Conversation History – self explanatory .
  3. Social Inbox – filtering messages that you want to read (to me it sounds analogous to priority inbox that we use in Gmail ) . Of course since it is on facebook this will trickle down to the friends of the friend that I care more about. My personal take on this is that this is going to be more intuitive and will improve over period of time.

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Components of Facebook's seamless messaging system

OTHER POINTS -

=>Mark Zuckerberg was not averse to saying that VOIP feature can also be part of future if users want it.

=> The advertising will not be inserted inside this messaging system yet.

=>Mark also claimed that this product is not a Gmail killer but is a Giga box killer. Also shared that he thinks Gmail is a great product. However, this product will work for Gmail users as well .

=> Message forwarding will be enabled. Allow people to add into thread and leave the thread.

=> A good user will have infinite storage space. :-)

=> works with Jabber/XMPP , SMTP will be released soon and Facebook API

UPDATE : You can request for your facebook message invite from HERE . Be sure to log in to Facebook first .

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  • http://terrycrosbyblog.com/ Terry Crosby

    WooHoo! Thank you Meetu for the very quick summary. I thought it was funny how they couldn’t just say their product would have very similar functionalities as Google’s priority inbox and Skype’s chat history (although, skype’s history only stores for 6 months – right? )

    • http://www.meetusinghal.com/ Meetu Singhal

      Thanks for reading, Terry! They have taken the best features form all around the internet. This system seems to be great as we will have just one thread. However, I can smell lots of security issues related to this on thread running between emails, message, text, chat …. in 360 direction. For Skype I keep 3 months, I am not sure if max is 6 months.

  • http://dreamosity.com/ Dreamosity

    Thanks Meetu! I’m willing to be patient for this one – so many good things will come of this new communication tool =)

    I love this quote “We want to help people connect no matter what the platform” Boz… they really took into account what the people wanted! Genius really!

    Marcelle

    • http://www.meetusinghal.com/ Meetu Singhal

      Very true, Marcelle! this will bring a big mashup in our communication life. But as I said above I am worried about the security part here. There will be too many systems talking to each other on one single thread. Let’s see when I will get my Invite :-)