So enough of that.

To me, what's interesting about this isn't what features Fmail will offer -- because frankly, who the frak needs another Webmail service? It's what this means for Facebook, which has spent the last year churning out new products and features at a Google-like pace.

This is what happens when companies get too big too quickly. They confuse being lucky and good with being great and all powerful. They think they can do anything. They overreach. And then they fall. It happens to nearly all of them.

Google is a prime example. Its list of failed or failing projects (Orkut, Wave, and the Nexus One, for starters) is now almost as long as its list of successes. For the past year or so, Google has been dining on a steady diet of cow paddies in black bean sauce (Google.cn, anyone?).

Microsoft has been overreaching since Steve Ballmer still had hair, believing that its near-monopoly over the desktop and dominance of office suites gave it the power to dictate everything else we use. That's not been working out for the company very well lately, .