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  • hnouwens
    Henk Nouwens

    Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over.

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  • jstearns
    Janice Stearns

    good article on the way email is taking a back seat to newer, better forms of online communication

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  • 14 Oct 09
  • myszenka
    Gosia Stergios

    We all still use email, of course. But email was better suited to the way we used to use the Internet—logging off and on, checking our messages in bursts. Now, we are always connected, whether we are sitting at a desk or on a mobile phone. The always-on c

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    • But the number of users on social-networking and other community sites jumped 31% to 301.5 million people.
    • So, how will these new tools change the way we communicate? Let's start with the most obvious: They make our interactions that much faster.
    • But the number of users on social-networking and other community sites jumped 31% to 301.5 million people.
    • So, how will these new tools change the way we communicate? Let's start with the most obvious: They make our interactions that much faster.
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  • 13 Oct 09
    • always-on connection, in turn, has created a host of new ways to communicate that are much faster than email, and more fun.
  • pgeorge
    Peggy George

    "Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over. In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold—services like Twitter and Facebook and countless others vying for a piece of the new world. And just as email did more than a decade ago, this shift promises to profoundly rewrite the way we communicate—in ways we can only begin to imagine."

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    • Now those friends, if they're interested, can watch it unfold in real time online.
    • harder to determine the importance of various messages.
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  • 12 Oct 09
    • this shift promises to profoundly rewrite the way we communicate—in ways we can only begin to imagine
    • You can argue that because we have more ways to send more messages, we spend more time doing it.
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  • todbaker
    Tod Baker

    "Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over.

    In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold—services like Twitter and Facebook and countless others vying for a piece of the new world. And just as email did more than a decade ago, this shift promises to profoundly rewrite the way we communicate—in ways we can only begin to imagine."

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    • We all still use email, of course. But email was better suited to the way we used to use the Internet—logging off and on, checking our messages in bursts. Now, we are always connected, whether we are sitting at a desk or on a mobile phone.
      • Tod Baker

        Tod Baker on 2009-10-12

        The shift happened.

    • Enter filtering. In email land, consumers can often get by with a few folders, if that. But in the land of the stream, some sort of more sophisticated filtering is a must.
      • Tod Baker

        Tod Baker on 2009-10-12

        A skill to have if you want to navigate the river.

      • Jon Pincus

        Jon Pincus on 2009-10-14

        also a skill needed for navigating high volumes of email ...

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  • joelogon
    Joe Loong

    E-mail is dead. Long live e-mail.

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  • sf_petea
    Pete Austin

    "Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over.

    In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold—services like Twitter and Facebook and countless others vying for a piece of the new world. And just as email did more than a decade ago, this shift promises to profoundly rewrite the way we communicate—in ways we can only begin to imagine."

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  • jvirant
    Joe Virant

    Email is dead...even the Wall Street Journal says so.

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    • Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over.


      In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold—services like Twitter and Facebook and countless others vying for a piece of the new world. And just as email did more than a decade ago, this shift promises to profoundly rewrite the way we communicate—in ways we can only begin to imagine.


      We all still use email, of course. But email was better suited to the way we used to use the Internet—logging off and on, checking our messages in bursts. Now, we are always connected, whether we are sitting at a desk or on a mobile phone. The always-on connection, in turn, has created a host of new ways to communicate that are much faster than email, and more fun.


      Why wait for a response to an email when you get a quicker answer over instant messaging? Thanks to Facebook, some questions can be answered without asking them. You don't need to ask a friend whether she has left work, if she has updated her public "status" on the site telling the world so. Email, stuck in the era of attachments, seems boring compared to services like Google Wave, currently in test phase, which allows users to share photos by dragging and dropping them from a desktop into a Wave, and to enter comments in near real time.

  • maxugaz
    Max Ugaz

    Articulo del WSJ sobre el fin del reino del email o correo electronico

    • We all still use email, of course. But email was better suited to the way we used to use the Internet—logging off and on, checking our messages in bursts. Now, we are always connected, whether we are sitting at a desk or on a mobile phone. The always-on connection, in turn, has created a host of new ways to communicate that are much faster than email, and more fun.
    • Little wonder that while email continues to grow, other types of communication services are growing far faster. In August 2009, 276.9 million people used email across the U.S., several European countries, Australia and Brazil, according to Nielsen Co., up 21% from 229.2 million in August 2008. But the number of users on social-networking and other community sites jumped 31% to 301.5 million people.
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