[FoRK] The death of email?

[Jeff Bone]

On Jan 21, 2008, at 4:29 PM, Lucas Gonze wrote:

> What's profound about the rejection of email and embrace of messaging
> within closed communities is that it is a rejection of
> interoperability.  The goals and strategies of the founding generation
> of internet creators are not meeting the needs of these users.
>
> It's not spam that they object to -- myspace is crawling with it.
> It's open access.  These users are seeking to be in sealed
> environments.  The Compuserve model is undead.

Place-ification.  Situatedness.

I'm skeptical, but it's an interesting hypothesis.

jb