Comments on: Google & Yahoo Finally Get The Memo: Email Is The Social Environment.

By: Email Is The New Social Environment?! | Creative Idea Powerhouse

Email Is The New Social Environment?! | Creative Idea Powerhouse — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:45:42 +0000

[...] do less in your email and start to get productivity up. Last month, GigaOm posted an article about Email as the new social environment, which OM talks that Yahoo and Google finally realize that their biggest assets, 260million email [...]

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TechMacro :: (un)Official Daily Tech News — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:00:40 +0000

[...] plan was revealed in an interview by the New York Times with a Yahoo’s senior executive, Brad Garlinghouse, who was at the time [...]

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November 15, 2007 | TechTV Update — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:14:13 +0000

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By: Xoopit Will Turn Your Inbox Into a Social Network - GigaOM

Xoopit Will Turn Your Inbox Into a Social Network - GigaOM — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:00:14 +0000

[...] trying to capitalize on simple common sense. Of course, it’s even more delicious that giants who own our inboxes — Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL — are simply twiddling their [...]

By: Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing : Email contacts - the natural social network

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing : Email contacts - the natural social network — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:18:43 +0000

[...] Om Malik was an early and vocal proponent of making email the basis of your social network. His story "Google and Yahoo Finally Get The Memo: Email Is The Social Environment" [...]

By: Hiro

Hiro — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:29:38 +0000

I think it’s all because everybody wants to do everything in order to take the most profit out of it….
How come smart ppl need to build a ‘PM’ engine in their social network while they actually know that all users are using their E-mail address as Social Network credential.
I believe when all teenagers reach their productive age; ERPs will extends their capability into employees’ social networking… :) mmmmh… somebody must’ve starting to build it now…

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:05:13 +0000

I use email at work. I’m starting to use Facebook to keep in touch with all my friends. I foresee this going further – “email accounts” will be like using a word processor — work only.

By: Hiro

Hiro — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:28:46 +0000

I thought social network will extend from email services as – IMHO – ancestor of www world.
Started when yahoo introduce yahoogroups where people with same interest can communicate, email extends its function not only P2P communication.
Then IM start to take the lead, most of ppl use email not because they want to use it.. it because they love to interactively communicate with ppl in IM, they rarely checked email, only log in to the IM. Especially when the IM have more enhance features where user can sending a file P2P.
Then, IM extends its function that we can stored any messages to an archive file. Which also one of email benefit.

Then, social network portal… people register an email account so they can have a ‘residence’ in www and can apply to social network portal. in this portal, we can know and find more friend in a better way, can do a private messages (which email should take the part for this).
Even, one of the research saying; most of youngster check their social network page than their email. :)

This is the time; all store and forward messages should be only being done by email and any other application can do that should use this capabilities from existing email apps providers . Save space… less space, less electricity… stop global warming… :P (I’m taking it too far… )

cheers,
Hiro

By: Miro

Miro — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:47:22 +0000

the biggest challenge I have with webmail is its limited ability to organize an automate incoming emails into predefined buckets

also given a fear of exposing my contact's data to potential hackers - I limit the information I store online

those things will need to be adressed for the social networking

I would also love to have a tracking system that allows one to know when the email has been received/opened - to help bridge the gap of the IM's

as an inner circle tool there is potential but I think if there were some way of creating the same look/feel to a social page - but limited to the information being shared between the parties - I think you'll have a winning proposition.

then considering what could be done in a B2B environment ....

my wishlist

looking forward to seeing the beta's

By: Mark Robins

Mark Robins — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:53:52 +0000

@Jim

At Grouply, we completely agree with you about the enormous potential of Yahoo Groups. Grouply effectively converts your existing Yahoo Groups into powerful social networks. Check it out at http://www.grouply.com/register.php?code=gigaom and let me know what you think!

Mark Robins
Co-founder/CEO, Grouply

By: liveweb

liveweb — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:23:36 +0000

Sounds interesting, however I am afraid they may want to distort email into something that it's not fundamentally, just to compete with Facebook.

By: FuckedSuit

FuckedSuit — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:19:19 +0000

Email to Leverage Social Network

Finally someone got a clue. You read (ha, right…) where I said that social networks are faddish because there is no true utility. Well, if MySpace or Facebook included an @facebook.com email account, people would stay for the long haul. Come to t...

By: Sachin Balagopalan

Sachin Balagopalan — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:08:13 +0000

Yup it’s about time….

http://tinyurl.com/3cteyu

By: Deva Hazarika

Deva Hazarika — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:09:40 +0000

Trying to use email as a platform for building another Facebook is backwards, as there’s so much richer and deeper communication going on within email already. Leveraging that information and those relationships to provide for more powerful and relevant interaction is a huge opportunity, though. More here: http://www.emaildashboard.com/2007/11/inbox-20—emai.html

By: matt brezina

matt brezina — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:03:29 +0000

Hey Om,

We’re looking forward to expanding the Xobni beta to a wider audience soon. The response so far has been awesome. Readers can sign up at http://www.xobni.com

Cheers,
Matt
Co-founder, Xobni

By: mifi

mifi — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:26:27 +0000

i have been saying this since i saw myspace.
if yahoo and gmail play their cards correctly they might hurt site like myspace and facebook.
just imagine, you dont have to invite anyone… they are already in your network.
simply brilliant.