Comments on: A Sunday sideways shufti at mail

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Musing about Flickr and YouTube and mobile phone cameras in the enterprise — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:54:57 +0000

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Communication buttons | Over The Counter Culture — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:21:02 +0000

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By: Steve Ellwood

Steve Ellwood — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:36:35 +0000

Have you seen http://five.sentenc.es/

Based on Mike’s blog post http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2007/07/fight-email-overload-with-sentences

Using Microsoft Office Communicator at work helps – the presence bit – you know when someone’s there to take a call, rather than an email.

By: Mike Persaud

Mike Persaud — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:25:33 +0000

A product delivered to your spec would probably be the earliest ever versions of electronic mail or the efforts we all made when knocking up VB apps back in those early days.

Email applications of yesterday failed because they lacked the features you identify as the problem today. Further disruption required, but what’s taking so long?

I cannot disagree with you here nor do I have the answer, but I do agree with Michael Arrington in this post.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/23/a-crisis-in-communication/

I’d like to crack that problem.