All you need is e-mail, e-mail. E-mail is all you need.
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All you need is e-mail, e-mail. E-mail is all you need.
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Re: All you need is e-mail, e-mail. E-mail is all you need.
#2I am curious about anyone currently trying to build a communication tool, and their argument for why it is a better solution than email.
Re: All you need is e-mail, e-mail. E-mail is all you need.
#3Email is OK as a communication tool. But companies use it as a task/to-do list and to work together on tasks.
Email is terrible to achieve this. You will end up with lots of emails and multiple versions of the same documents...
That is why I wish someone fix email! :)
Re: All you need is e-mail, e-mail. E-mail is all you need.
#4Email is OK as a communication tool. But companies use it as a task/to-do list and to work together on tasks. Email is terrible to achieve this. You will end up with lots of emails and multiple versions of the same documents... That is why I wish someone fix email! :)
If that's what you're using it for, someone has fixed email:
Re: All you need is e-mail, e-mail. E-mail is all you need.
#5All I was doing was avoiding doing the work, the real effort of producing the content that actually mattered. I was hiding from honest sharing with the conviction that the tools were not good enough yet.
This is a great insight. Building the platform is sometimes only half the battle -- getting users to produce the content that makes the product interesting , valuable (and eventually profitable) seems like the challenge these days. Because the further entrenched people become to the platform that houses their "content", the more loyal they become. Facebook is the most obvious example, and a lot of Facebook communications read like watered-down email OK for public consumption.
Re: All you need is e-mail, e-mail. E-mail is all you need.
#6I couldn't agree more. I deal with a large number of older people on a daily
basis as part of my volunteer work. Getting these folk to use the Internet in
any way is painful. For example, I send out these PDF reports once a week.
It's the same template every time but for accounting purposes, it has to be
done. I wrote a Python script to generate those for me and I stick them up on
a simple website on S3. The script them emails everyone to let them know the
report is available and that they can download it. It includes a link to the
report and to the website with all the other reports. These guys absolutely
cannot open a browser and view the PDF in the browser. If it's not an
attachment to the email, they don't know what to do.
TLDR --- Email is great. It's so simple that even non-techies get it.
Re: All you need is e-mail, e-mail. E-mail is all you need.
#7Email is awesome, certainly. But if everyone actually started a mass-email to all their friends about every little topic they post to a Facebook status update, I'd call 'em pretty damned rude abusing my email inbox like that and my email client would need even better filters than it already has to fight the commercial spam.
Experiments to find things better than email will mostly fail, but I think we still need more experiments. There must be something better than all that spam for a start.
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#8Email is OK as a communication tool. But companies use it as a task/to-do list and to work together on tasks. Email is terrible to achieve this. You will end up with lots of emails and multiple versions of the same documents... That is why I wish someone fix email! :)
If that's what you're using it for, someone has fixed email: http://trello.com
I'm using Trello! :)
It is great if you don't have lots of leads :)
Re: All you need is e-mail, e-mail. E-mail is all you need.
#9Email is OK as a communication tool. But companies use it as a task/to-do list and to work together on tasks. Email is terrible to achieve this. You will end up with lots of emails and multiple versions of the same documents... That is why I wish someone fix email! :)
Maybe in outlook...aren't most of those problems solved by gmail? :)
Re: All you need is e-mail, e-mail. E-mail is all you need.
#10+1
E-mail is incredibly underutilized as a technology.
One could make an argument the majority of instagram's (of course not the filters) functionality could be handled by e-mail, but the "perceived need" to use apps on the smartphone that you purchased for a large percentage of your monthly income but the experience of using the app is difficult to discount.
Another point worth considering is that much of the functionality associated with Path is available in Facebook if you want to play around with settings, but for some reason Path still seems relevant.