I have a long-running discussion with a number of friends:\u00a0 what’s next for email?<\/p>\n
After all, email hasn’t changed much in the past few decades.\u00a0 Email readers have gotten slightly better over the years, with improved multimedia handling, searching, threading, calendar integration, etc.\u00a0 In a lot of ways, email clients have been just good enough (e.g. Outlook) there haven’t been huge incentive for breakthroughs.<\/p>\n
Also, instant messaging has overlapped with email.\u00a0 How many times have you had a quick email exchange, then opened IM\/chat to finish the discussion?\u00a0 Some exchanges are interactive, and don’t lend themselves to an email message format.<\/p>\n
I’m not sure if Google Wave<\/a> will “catch”, but it’s the first thing I’ve seen in a long time that could be the evolution of email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have a long-running discussion with a number of friends:\u00a0 what’s next for email? After all, email hasn’t changed much in the past few decades.\u00a0 Email readers have gotten slightly better over the years, with improved multimedia handling, searching, threading, … Continue reading