Another sweet revenge from Facebook. The Facebook Mail!

The latest buzz in the internet world is about the upcoming Facebook email service.At a Monday event at company headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., social-networking giant Facebook unveiled a messaging service to compete directly against Google's Gmail product -- allegedly referred to inside Facebook as a "Gmail killer." But it's not what you might think, said company chief Mark Zuckerberg.

"We don't think a modern messaging service is going to be e-mail," Zuckerberg said, explaining that his company's new service is modelled more after chat than after a straight e-mail client. One of the e-mail's key flaws, after all, is that it's not real time. And messaging needs to be immediate, he said.

"I'm not saying you need to send an e-mail and it shows up at the speed of light," Zuckerberg clarified, but the speed of instant messaging or text messages on cell phones is dramatically different from e-mails."We can do better," Zuckerberg said. Long live his dreams.