Comments on: Closed messaging revisited http://briansim.com/blog/closed-messaging-revisited/ Version 6.0 (Slightly worse than v5.1) Sun, 18 Jul 2010 02:47:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Brian http://briansim.com/blog/closed-messaging-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Brian Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:50:35 +0000 http://www.briansim.com/blog/2007/10/03/closed-messaging-revisited/#comment-10 > Best of all, my social network now becomes a great white-list filter to avoid spam. Yes. It brings the standard address book to life, which is where Plaxo sort of seems like it's going. > Problem with email though, is it’s extremely boring Which is fine, because the messaging component is only one feature within the larger SNS environment - a purely utilitarian feature. So I guess that would be another reason for email providers to partner, in order to improve the quality, as well as quantity, of engagement. > Best of all, my social network now becomes a great white-list filter to avoid spam.

Yes. It brings the standard address book to life, which is where Plaxo sort of seems like it’s going.

> Problem with email though, is it’s extremely boring

Which is fine, because the messaging component is only one feature within the larger SNS environment – a purely utilitarian feature. So I guess that would be another reason for email providers to partner, in order to improve the quality, as well as quantity, of engagement.

]]> By: S. Srinivasan http://briansim.com/blog/closed-messaging-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-9 S. Srinivasan Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:40:07 +0000 http://www.briansim.com/blog/2007/10/03/closed-messaging-revisited/#comment-9 Another nice thing about eMail apart from its external communications, and archival, is that you can have multiple identities/profiles one for each of your life, and all integrated within one InBox. Actually it's only aggregated, rather than integrated. Best of all, my social network now becomes a great white-list filter to avoid spam. Problem with email though, is it's extremely boring. The entire metaphor is folder/information centric, and not people centric - and definitely not me-centric. Another nice thing about eMail apart from its external communications, and archival, is that you can have multiple identities/profiles one for each of your life, and all integrated within one InBox. Actually it’s only aggregated, rather than integrated. Best of all, my social network now becomes a great white-list filter to avoid spam.

Problem with email though, is it’s extremely boring. The entire metaphor is folder/information centric, and not people centric – and definitely not me-centric.

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