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Title:

Web Mail - Is There Room Left to Innovate?

Your vote:
Yes No
Organizer:
Dan Lewis, Microsoft
Description:
Web mail has been around the block, and everybody’s got it. Its role may be narrowing to the place you manage online bills, shopping, travel, and photos with mom, with conversations migrating to social networks and IM, but companies are still pounding the digital pavement for new users. If web mail isn't going anywhere, where does it go from here?
Questions
Answered:
  1. How big is the email category?
  2. what are the big changes which can happen
  3. What are the recent innovations
  4. How much impact will changes have
  5. WIll we see communication methods merging with social networks
  6. Are labs/bleeding edge methods working?
  7. Will enhancements be for mobile and clients as well?
Level:
Beginner
Category:
User Experience
Type:
Panel
Event:
Interactive 2010
bryan saftler
on 30/8/09
That's a great question... is there room to innovate??
Carter Rabasa
on 3/9/09
I know one person who *definitely* thinks there is room to innovate: Josh Baer, CEO of OtherInbox.com. He's going to be joining us on this panel, and I'm sure will have some interesting ideas about the future of email.
Joshua Baer
on 3/9/09
Ooh I'm looking forward to this one! Email has kind of stagnated since the introduction of email authentication - what's next? Social media is popular but you still need an email address to sign up for everything and its still the "home" of your online life. More and more, things we do in the physical world leave a digital papertrail. We're just going to get more and more email and we need better ways to organize and process it.

Tell me your thoughts about innovation in email @joshuabaer or @deliverability
Sandra Large
on 4/9/09
surely the answer to this question entirely depends on Google Wave and whether or not that becomes Mainstream or just for 'niche' areas? It's true that e-mail hasn't changed and is basically still based on our postman delivering your mail through the letterbox. However, for the ordinary newbie to computers in general, that makes its concept easy to grasp.
Games Online
on 3/11/09
Looking forward to this!
Blu-ray Video Converter
on 21/11/09
What's in the world?
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