<p>TechCrunch, a leading Silicon Valley technology blog, has reported that the social network plans to announce a Web-based email service complete with @facebook.com addresses at an event in San Francisco tomorrow.<br /><br />Yahoo, Google and Microsoft are already scrambling to retool their e-mail services to build them more around people’s social connections.<br /><br />Facebook would have a tremendous advantage because it owns a vast trove of data about people’s relationships and would find it easier to graft e-mail onto its existing social services such as photo-sharing.</p>
<p>TechCrunch, a leading Silicon Valley technology blog, has reported that the social network plans to announce a Web-based email service complete with @facebook.com addresses at an event in San Francisco tomorrow.<br /><br />Yahoo, Google and Microsoft are already scrambling to retool their e-mail services to build them more around people’s social connections.<br /><br />Facebook would have a tremendous advantage because it owns a vast trove of data about people’s relationships and would find it easier to graft e-mail onto its existing social services such as photo-sharing.</p>