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• 02 Apr 07
  

  Doug Hellmann

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• 19 Mar 07
  

  markmadro

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• 17 Mar 07
  

  David r

  Could we really get beyond email? It just might happen: younger people don’t have the dedication to email that baby boomers and gen Xers do. Social media researcher danah boyd considers email dead “in the sense that it is not longer a site of deep emo

  collaboration productivity

• 16 Mar 07
  

  eyal matsliah

  blogging email file-sharing im jeff-barr microblogging p2p predictions productivity teleworking tools vox

  • Ray Johnson says;

       

    March 17th, 2007 at 4:04 pm

      

    I think the best tool for the “post e-mail era” is undoubtedly Diigo, which allows you to share sites you’ve bookmarked, with passages you find significant highlighted, and your own notes. You can also forward a link, with highlights and notes, to others by e-mail, if you prefer, or you can post all this information to your blog. And those are just the key points of what their integrated tools can help you do.

     

    For two recent reviews that explain some of the power of Diigo, see: Under the Radar: Self Optimize and Adapt… and Intelligent Agent: Social Bookmarking for Enterprise Knowledge Management, which reviews several sites, including Diigo.
  • Could we really get beyond email? It just might happen:
  • But it could provide an alternative means to share files for people who don’t want a web page as an intermediary (as with Vox).
  • 4. Tubes. Tubes provides peer-to-peer file sharing and synchronization among groups of friends, families, or colleagues without email as an intermediary.
  • 3. Vox blogging.
  • I’m looking forward to the day when everyone has their own access-controlled blog to share their photos and thoughts.
  • 2. Trillian Astra unified instant messaging or other IM aggregator
  • It makes instant messaging more convenient and effective… and instant messaging is better for collaboration than email.
  • 1. Twitter microblogger.
  • Social media researcher danah boyd considers email dead “in the sense that it is not longer a site of deep emotional passion

  • Amazon Web Services evangelist Jeff Barr proposes that we might move beyond email some day:

     

    I am starting to think that there may be such a thing as a post-email era, a time when we have forgotten about the entire concept of an Inbox, when there’s no such thing as catching up, and when more of our time and energy can be used in a more productive fashion.

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