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I have a lot of respect for Dave Winer and have been following his thoughts on the future of Twitter.  I hope people listen to what he has to say.

“Here’s a screen shot to contemplate.  There are two 140-character messages. Each illustrates features of the new shipwreck I hope to sink, to create a new coral reef for Twitter-like systems to grow on and around.” – Dave Winer via scripting.com

I take far too long replying to Facebook messages because they dont come to my Mail inbox.  I like that the full message is emailed to me but I hate that i cannot reply and have the message go to the sender, and so they go on sitting there without replies.  Why doesnt Facebook allow us to download the messages via IMAP so we can respond to them in our own systems?

Either Facebook should develop an IMAP system to read and reply to Facebook messages (Im only talking about the Mail, not wall posts or anything silly like that), or someone should develop a third-party system that integrates Facebook mail with IMAP.

I dont know a lot about the Facebook API’s but I would hope there was some way to access your own Mail messages through the API.  I also dont know a lot about how IMAP is built, but in my mind either an IMAP plugin (if such a thing is possible) to fetch mail from Facebook, or simply a system that fetches mail from Facebook using the credentials supplied by the user and pushes them into an IMAP system (tweaking the headers to put in a different Reply-To address – something like “reply-FACEBOOKMESSAGEID@fbmail.com” – so replies would go back to this third-party system which would then push the reply back into Facebook).

“The Omega Center for Sustainable Living is designed to make a LEED Gold structure look like a Superfund site. The $3.2 million Rhinebeck, New York, structure, which opens in July, will be the nation’s first certified “living building,” having no negative environmental effects. The centerpiece of the project — designed by Kansas City, Missouri-based BNIM and John Todd Ecological Design of Woods Hole, Massachusetts — is a revolutionary system that will clean 5 million gallons of wastewater a year. The facility also doubles as an education center focusing on — what else? — sustainable living.” – Anne C. Lee via fastcompany.com