MySpace, it would seem, has been quietly preparing a webmail platform. With their massive 125 million user membership, this would make MySpace a major player in the webmail market and place them below second-place Yahoo Mail and above third-place Gmail in user volume. However, it remains to be seen whether MySpace users will forgo their usual webmail providers and switch to using MySpace mail, or whether it will merely be a nice convenience and sometimes used feature.

Michael Arrington at Tech Crunch posits this observation:

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.

I have to admit, it does seem likely, I wonder if Facebook will follow suit. [Tech Crunch]

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