[FoRK] The death of email?

[Aaron Burt]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 02:16:14PM -0800, Stephen D. Williams wrote:
> Exactly.  You can't have a conversation with a firehose pointed directly at
> you.  Cumulative noise annoyance drowns benefit after a while.
<snip>
> There are ways to deal with this.  Some systems do some of it accidentally. 
> Pre/extra Internet systems of people deal with this in various ways, often
> throgh merit hierarchies and regionality.

Some systems do it intentionally.  Easy-to-use ranking and matchmaking
are critical to networked gaming.  Hence the fact that my (fingers
crossed) new employer was recently bought by a very large games company.

Social networking sites do matchmaking by allegiances and shared
interests.  Buy/sell sites do ranking by prices and outcomes.  
Invent a way to apply both, in combination, with a responsive and good
UI, to more Internet services, and you've got your next $10e8.
(Note: actual amount may be rather less in real money.)

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