I would like to expand on my previous post. Here are three facts, as I see them.<\/p>\n
Mail has a vast untapped potential in the social media scene. Well that may sound odd since mail is the core networking app but what I mean is that is very restrictive in the way it was designed. One person, one mailbox. That is basically the premise of mail. The protocols are all designed around that fundamental design parameter. Back when mail was designed, social media was four decades in the future and one user could, via their credentials connect to “their” mailbox. Other technologies were adopted to give rise to usenet newsgroups. These however were at the other, public, end of the spectrum and are considered obsolete, according to Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n What I’m thinking of is something in between the individual and everybody. A group, be it a family, a club or some other organisation with enough common trust that a single set of mail is shared by them all.<\/p>\n The “design principles” are something like:<\/p>\n It sounds pretty simple but I suspect in reality, it is a massively difficult problem in message data synchronisation and retention.<\/p>\n Pity this post has been sitting in draft for a month!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I would like to expand on my previous post. Here are three facts, as I see them. Mail is the supreme app of the internet age. Mail is old, it’s protocols were designed in the 70’s. Social media and networking … Continue reading \n