All this said, i still feel there’s a lot of things that can be improved in personal communication space. I don’t particularly like e-mail because it’s not instant, and it limits the size of files you can send. It’s great if you want to send stuff to a lot of people at once. Instant messaging offers instant communication, but sending stuff to more than one person isn’t working all that well (yes, you can switch to chat mode but why do I have to do that every time I want to send a message or a file to more than one person on my friends list). Also, it usually provides no log of your previous messages, or this log is full of omissions (if you use IM at home and at work, for example), and it’s a pain to search it. Finally, there’s web-based personal communication - Jaiku, Twitter, Pownce, the last of which fixes many of the problems that IM has, but, well, it’s still not working instantly. Plus, it doesn’t offer support for mobile
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