MySpace Entering the Social Inbox Fray?
MySpace webmail on the horizon?
TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington reported last week that MySpace has been building a new webmail offering on the down-low for the past several months.
According to the article:
The first hint of the new service was a reassignment of some MySpace employee email addresses to [name]@myspace-inc.com, which people have noticed. This is a sign that they are preparing to assign MySpace.com email addresses to users, which is exactly how Yahoo handled the transition when they launched Yahoo Mail in 1997 - Yahoo employees moved to yahoo-inc.com email addresses. We’ve subsequently confirmed that MySpace is currently building a webmail product.
If and when MySpace enters the webmail fray, it will instantly become the web’s third largest webmail provider at 125M users, trailing only Microsoft’s Hotmail (284M users) and Yahoo (277M users). Gmail, however, will have something to say about that as it currently claims 118M users and is growing faster than any other major webmail provider.
What this means for email marketers remains to be seen; however, it is yet one more bit of evidence that the social inbox arms race is on. Can an open Facebook webmail client be far behind? Stay tuned.
This entry was posted on Monday, January 19th, 2009 at 8:18 am and is filed under Future of Email, Social Media and Email, email marketing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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