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Facebook Initiates Project Titan To Kill Gmail

12 Nov, 2010, 5:32 pm IST | by Roshan DSilva | Services

Apart from being a really cool title for a secret plan by Facebook, it could also be a signal at a major change in the email provider scene, provided everything goes according to plan at Facebook HQ.

Gmail Killer??

Emails were sent out to users with @facebook.com id’s and within those emails were invites to a special event on Monday.There are strong hints that Facebook is building a full-fledged webmail client.
Project Titan has huge potential since Facebook is a very popular in the online space, rest assured this wont be the Facebook messaging UI with a email tacked on, but will be a proper well crafted webmail service.

You can view the invitation below

We will keep you updated on Project Titan as soon as new information rolls in.

Tags: Gmail , Google , Facebook , Email

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