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Email Becomes Center of Social Networks?

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

Every few weeks, the blogosphere likes to regurgitate information that it previously discussed a few weeks ago. This is the case with the most recent post by Saul Hansell in which he discusses Yahoo and Google’s intention to turn their email services and start pages into social network ... Continue reading »

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  • "Will you want your email to be the center of your social network?"

    A lot of these articles use "email" "contacts" "inbox" and other very different concepts interchangeably. I don't think email is going to morph into some social networking as we know it today. However, using the content and relationship data stored within email to provide more powerful applications of existing social networking platforms and concepts makes a lot of sense. More in this blog post: http://www.emaildashboard.com/2007/11/inbox-20-...
  • Nick - feel free to use my relevant earlier cartoon... it hints that social conversations and communications happening outside of email could possibly become the norm in the future. Maybe its just fantasy, except for people who converse via comments. And congrats on the launch of your site!

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