Facebook Redesign Paves Way for Facebookmail: Google Beware?

Facebook is beginning a roll-out of a redesign to its Web page that places more emphasis on notifications. It'll improve things for users for sure, but it's just the first step of a plan to give Facebook serious Web emailing powers.

Though the tweaks to Facebook's Web UI are pretty subtle, they'll probably have a big effect--starting with notifications. Currently these updates appear all the way down in the bottom menu bar's right hand side and it's pretty easy to overlook them. In the new...