Comments on: Maybe Email IS a social graph http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/11/maybe-email-is-social-media Digital Lifestyle Aggregation - helping to establish open source infrastructure Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:37:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Julian Bond http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/11/maybe-email-is-social-media#comment-243406 Julian Bond Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:04:10 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/11/maybe-email-is-social-media#comment-243406 Let's look at email for a moment. - The contact or address book contains a social graph. It's quite hard to find addresses, but people can introduce you. So it's good for collecting names. - It's obviously good at one to one messageing - Mailing lists make reasonably good discussion forums. I wish more email readers had explicit support for mailing lists, but Google Groups and Yahoo groups are the original and fairly complete clubs. So it's good for few to few discussion. - I can't see anything in email that makes it good for One to Many publishing. So it's got 3 out of 4 of Meet, Message, Discuss, Publish. That's better than some things that we do call Social Networks. Let’s look at email for a moment.
- The contact or address book contains a social graph. It’s quite hard to find addresses, but people can introduce you. So it’s good for collecting names.
- It’s obviously good at one to one messageing
- Mailing lists make reasonably good discussion forums. I wish more email readers had explicit support for mailing lists, but Google Groups and Yahoo groups are the original and fairly complete clubs. So it’s good for few to few discussion.
- I can’t see anything in email that makes it good for One to Many publishing.
So it’s got 3 out of 4 of Meet, Message, Discuss, Publish. That’s better than some things that we do call Social Networks.

]]> By: Krish http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/11/maybe-email-is-social-media#comment-243405 Krish Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:35:41 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/11/maybe-email-is-social-media#comment-243405 Marc, Good to see this post. I posted the following tweets on my Twitter http://twitter.com/krishnan/statuses/412577992 http://twitter.com/krishnan/statuses/412580522 The very next day I saw your post titled "Why on-line email and IM systems ain’t social graphs" and I started wondering if I read your vision wrong. Good to know that my ideas are in sync with your philosophy and I didn't make a fool of myself in the Twitter :-) Marc,

Good to see this post. I posted the following tweets on my Twitter

http://twitter.com/krishnan/statuses/412577992
http://twitter.com/krishnan/statuses/412580522

The very next day I saw your post titled “Why on-line email and IM systems ain’t social graphs” and I started wondering if I read your vision wrong. Good to know that my ideas are in sync with your philosophy and I didn’t make a fool of myself in the Twitter :-)

]]> By: Callum http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/11/maybe-email-is-social-media#comment-243402 Callum Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:40:44 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/11/maybe-email-is-social-media#comment-243402 You said: <blockquote>I’ve been pitching that for years</blockquote> I've noticed a few other similar statements on your blog. I think it would add credibility if you backed those with links, say to blog posts, articles, or whatever, which show you were in fact talking about this stuff before it became "mainstream". It's not that I don't believe you, personally it makes no real difference. But, I can feel myself losing a little faith each time you make another unsubstantiated statement like that. Interesting posts today, glad I keep reading your feed. You said:

I’ve been pitching that for years

I’ve noticed a few other similar statements on your blog. I think it would add credibility if you backed those with links, say to blog posts, articles, or whatever, which show you were in fact talking about this stuff before it became “mainstream”.

It’s not that I don’t believe you, personally it makes no real difference. But, I can feel myself losing a little faith each time you make another unsubstantiated statement like that.

Interesting posts today, glad I keep reading your feed.

]]> By: Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » How quickly things change http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/11/maybe-email-is-social-media#comment-243400 Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » How quickly things change Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:54:43 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/11/maybe-email-is-social-media#comment-243400 [...] « Maybe Email IS a social graph [...] […] « Maybe Email IS a social graph […]

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