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By: Killing Email: How and Why I Ditched My Inbox | FQ Mash

Killing Email: How and Why I Ditched My Inbox | FQ Mash — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:45:51 +0000

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Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:08:54 +0000

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By: Social Media Fans Use Email More, Not Less | Professional Blog Service

Social Media Fans Use Email More, Not Less | Professional Blog Service — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:14:42 +0000

[...] the demise of email at the hands of texting, Twitter, and other social media networks. (So said Dan Applequist in November 2008, Shakespeare the Engineer said it in July [...]

By: How to Declare Indepence from Email | Make Money Online

How to Declare Indepence from Email | Make Money Online — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:10:34 +0000

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By: Killing Email: How and Why I Ditched My Inbox | Zen Habits

Killing Email: How and Why I Ditched My Inbox | Zen Habits — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:24:28 +0000

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By: 28 Jul – Blog – Killing Email: How and Why I Ditched My Inbox « Today’s News

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:59:01 +0000

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By: Killing Email: How and Why I Ditched My Inbox

Killing Email: How and Why I Ditched My Inbox — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:18:16 +0000

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By: ARJWright

ARJWright — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:09:04 +0000

You know, the more I sit in a “corporate” setting, the more I agree with this meme. Email really should be lessened to certain types of contact, not all, and definitely not as an introductory medium.

SMS and IM are better for a lot of what constitutes communication in the text-based medium.

By: Eva

Eva — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:16:46 +0000

I can’t believe I’m posting a comment here, and I realize this is basically a dead thread, but — Dan, I have to disagree with you. Email does serve a real purpose for a lot of people. Maybe not the purpose you want it to, but if *I* am writing something in defense of email, then that’s got to be significant in and of itself.
Anything that allows for coherent paragraphs to be written using real words has to have something said in its defense.

By: Enterprise Mobility, Social Networks and the End of Email | m|strat

Enterprise Mobility, Social Networks and the End of Email | m|strat — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:32:31 +0000

[...] I wanted to point you to two interesting posts on living without email. The first one is over at Dan’s Blog (2.0): Email as a medium is not keeping up with how we interact, how we do our jobs, how we live in the [...]

By: Dee

Dee — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:33:13 +0000

Did you ever think that perhaps not everyone (even those employed in technology and media spheres) are so enamored with facebook or myspace? Not everyone wants to be plugged into a space where all of one’s personal and business contacts are clearly laid out? Some people still value privacy, and the only folks I know who feel as though they have to check in or even be registered with a web community are single people looking to hook up and losers who never got married.

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By: Phil Barrett

Phil Barrett — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:55:44 +0000

As you said – email is for old people.

Many have fled conventional email already in favour of closed-garden email – such as facebook. Many of my friends now keep in touch with me through facebook email then conventional.

Twitter doesn’t have critical mass yet -but SMS certainly does and achieves the same thing – short messages directly to the right person without having to cut through a sea of spam.

By: Alex Craxton

Alex Craxton — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:59:42 +0000

To add to my earlier comments, email sums up what I would call the ‘somebody elses problem’ culture. When I send you an email, you have to sort it, moderate it, filter it, organise it and so on. In a more social, shared culture the person sending would already do this … I would just opt to keep it or not. It is also a problem with sites like Google docs, when they say it is all about indexing things and search, it relies on the creator providing context and meaning (yeah right google!). I dont like tools where the creator/user can broadcast something to lots of other people and then its their problem of how to handle it, thats spam … bit like leaving a fart in a lift :)

By: John

John — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:14:12 +0000

I agree that we need something to replace email. I think TrulyMail is a good solution. It does not try to bandaid over the problems with email but is built from the ground up with support for trust circles, etc.

Instead of email, think asynchronous messaging. The reason everyone uses email today is that they don’t see a better solution. When they do (see reference above) they will move away from email and we will have a much better way to communicate.

Using synchronous messaging (like Skype) to do the job of asynchronous messaging (like email) cannot be a good idea (if I turn off my computer, the other party does not receive my IM on Skype).

I need to be able to send someone a message, which they can read even when disconnected (like on an airplane) and reply at their convenience. I do need to know that they got my message, which is another great failure of email today.

So, we do need something different but there are options out there. We just need more people to make the move.