Is email the ultimate social environment?

http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/

by brezina • 19 years ago

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bkmrkr• 19 years ago

are they giving out invite codes?

brezina2• 19 years ago

We will be rolling out more invites soon. You can sign up to be notified on our homepage www.xobni.com

plusbryan• 19 years ago

read the article - there is a code within. as of a minute ago, it's still usable.

steve• 19 years ago

Depends. Does it serve alcohol?

pstuart• 19 years ago

More importantly: will it get you laid?

far33d2• 19 years ago

Maybe, second to the phone (less spam)

nickb• 19 years ago

Agreed. SPAM, phisihing scams, 419 etc is the Achilles heel of email. I often watch/ask how my 12 and 9 year old cousins use Internet... neither of them use or like email. They all use either IM or msg through sites.

Email will never go away but its use will be reduced as the new generation grows up.

mdemare• 19 years ago

Maybe, but perhaps your cousins will start using email more as their social circle expands.

alaskamiller• 19 years ago

i can twit you, chat you, email you, or send you my blogroll. it's all just formatted text meant to communicate. and albeit mail and chat being the stickiest apps online, to say that email is somehow better than facebook is a farce. there's no set standard mode of communication.

if someone makes an utility that can auto-scale your message though, that'll be nifty. so if i type less than 140 characters, i want it to show up on my twitter list. if i address it singularly i want it to be sent via email. if i type a long winded essay i expect it to be published somewhere somehow.

yters• 19 years ago

Yeah, exactly. All these mediums are just waiting to be integrated. Just think how similar chat and email are.

aswanson• 19 years ago

Email is horrible.

gqgy• 19 years ago

how about facebook taking over as the "ultimate social environment" to whatever it is right now? reason why i throw that out there is because it has many functions all in one: email, photos, IM, etc.

Is email the ultimate social environment?

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