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Yet Another Premature Declaration of Email's Death

Posted by kdawson on from the to-from-subject-dammit dept.

mvip tips the latest in a long line of premature announcements of the demise of email. "The Wall Street Journal article Why Email No Longer Rules is making the rounds online. Fast Company provided a fast response, highlighting the technical shortcomings of trying to replace email with Facebook and Twitter (where do the attachments go?). Email Service Guide points out that Facebook and Twitter are ineffective for one-off communications. With Google Wave on the horizon, we'll probably have to go through the whole charade yet again."

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  1. Email is dead by MrKaos · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Long live email.

    Because it doesn't require my instantaneous attention and I get to control when I reply.

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    My ism, it's full of beliefs.
  2. google wave? come on now... by pha7boy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    i find google wave rather annoying. maybe because too few of my friends are on it, maybe because it's a whole new way of "emailing." maybe because it's not meant as a communication tool but rather as a collaboration tool. Either way, I don't see it replacing email anytime soon. or ever.

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    -- All this knowledge is giving me a raging brainer.