Prophesising the End of Email?
Microsoft Office 2010 provides seamless integration with LinkedIn.
Industry analysts expect Facebook to follow because Microsoft owns a sizable stake in the company. Some already demand it.
I think I can see where all this is going.
Email is going to die a slow painful death over the next 10 years.
95% of personal Internet communication will be through social networks and services.
To maintain their relevance, major email clients like Outlook/Thunderbird and services like Hotmail and eventually Yahoo/Gmail will probably integrate with major social networks, just like all the mobile phone manufacturers are doing now. Users will have a choice of seamless, unified interfaces into all their communications.
This will be celebrated as the ultimate solution to spam. Old fashioned emails will become a rarely-used relic.
A handful of companies will own and probably log our personal communications, another stake in the heart of the decentralised, anonymous and unregulated Internet many of us grew up with.
Somebody remind me about this post in 2019, I want to see how close I was to being right!
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Having said that, Google Wave has a ways to go: http://bit.ly/4Bhffo
Comment by Robert Mark Bram [Visitor] · http://robertmarkbramprogrammer.blogspot.com/ — 11/30/09 @ 18:48