Email is definitely headed towards extinction. This past weekend at the Future of Web Apps Conference in Miami they predicted just that.
Kevin Marks, a Google engineer and Technorati veteran, said in a talk about the company’s OpenSocial project and Social Graph APIs that e-mail is a “strange legacy idea.”
“E-mail has died away for a group [...]
ice crums
geekery 2.0
FOWA wants email to die….quickly!
Microsoft’s Greatest Hits: Top 5 internal e-mails
Seattle PI on Microsoft’s greatest internal email hits. One of my favorite quoutes is Jim Allchin’s 2004 comment:
I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.
More funny emails like this at Valleywag:
No one really believed we would ever ship[Vista].
Mozilla Messaging: Inbox 5.0….hopefully
I use Mail.app everyday for my five email accounts and can only say bad things about it. It crashes a lot(even more since 10.5.2), it’s clumsy and doesn’t really help with organization. In 2004 Gmail innovated with their easy to use simple approach, but has not done much for multiple email accounts(some support, but no [...]
LAX for your mailbox
A 3D email system that simulates LAX airport?!?!? Stupid? I wouldn’t use but I know a lot of people that would(aviation background).
The social graph and new social economy
Don’t want to sound like a broken record but…since the dawn of the internetz people have being trying to communicate: email, chat, VoIP, etc. People have been claiming that the next step in communication will be video, when in reality it is shaping to become more indirect and in context communications. Om Malik declared “email [...]