[FoRK] The death of email?

[Luis Villa]

On Jan 21, 2008 5:29 PM, Lucas Gonze <lucas.gonze at gmail.com> wrote:
> What's profound about the rejection of email and embrace of messaging
> within closed communities is that it is a rejection of
> interoperability.  The goals and strategies of the founding generation
> of internet creators are not meeting the needs of these users.
>
> It's not spam that they object to -- myspace is crawling with it.

Data point: I got my first fbook spam today.

> It's open access.  These users are seeking to be in sealed
> environments.

I don't think they are seeking to be in sealed environments; they are
seeking to be in easy, feature-rich environments. (Ever tried to do a
party invite which tracks RSVPs over regular email? Yeah, thought so.)
The sealedness is neither feature nor bug; it just happens to be how
the feature-richness is achieved.

(I love standards, but there has been no standard-based innovation in
email/social collaboration in 20 years. Had there been, facebook would
never have been built. And we all know there are good reasons why, in
a multi-vendor, stagnant )

Luis