If Facebook's email service is a success, it's bad news for Yahoo and AOL, which are already losing users. It's also bad news for Google, which uses Gmail as a launch point into search, Google Apps, and to small degree social stuff through Buzz.
What would it take for Facebook email to be a success? Well, Facebook has 150 million active users in the United States. It's unlikely to convert all those users, but if it can get just a third of them to start using its email, it would have the second most popular email service in the U.S.
Below, we've charted the monthly uniques for each big email service. For some context we also charted how many overall uniques Facebook gets.
Source:BusinessInsider
Apple's iPad competitor Samsung's Galaxy Tab is going to hit the Market next week.
The Tab is being introduced over the next week by three major U.S. wireless phone carriers at $400 with a cellular data contract, or at $600 with cellular capability but no contract. The iPad starts at $499 for a Wi-Fi model with no cellular-data capability or contract, and is $629 for the least expensive model with cellular data capability but no contract.(WSJ)
More on: Galaxy Tab and the Wireless Carriers
New Internet browser, RockMelt integrates all the social media contents such as Facebook
A new Internet browser, RockMelt integrates all the social media contents such as Facebook and your favourite websites into the the browser so that you don't have to leave the internet browser to visit your favorite web sites.
"The way I think about it is, you can browse with your friends on the left, your favorite sites on the right, and search up top. It is a realtime browser in that you can see when your Facebook friends are online and get notifications when your favorite sites, blogs, and streams are updated with new information."Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch
For more check out this YouTube video.
The developers behind this cool Browser.
