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By: Implementing Social Media’s Secret Weapon | GoldenVisionTraining.com

Implementing Social Media’s Secret Weapon | GoldenVisionTraining.com — Sat, 14 May 2011 19:21:12 +0000

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By: Email – The Original Social Graph | Bookmarks

Email – The Original Social Graph | Bookmarks — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:56:34 +0000

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By: charlieok

charlieok — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:13:53 +0000

I'm really excited by Wave, because it seems to be built around the fundamental unit of a conversation, rather than an individual message. I think that's exactly the right way to look at it.

The name made sense immediately too — a conversation might start in one place (a blog, say) and spread elsewhere (other blogs) and then spur private email conversations. I can already picture waves traveling outward, across the internet, from an original splash.

The fact that not only will Google be rolling this out soon and promoting it to their entire base of gmail users, but also opening both the protocol and a working implementation, strikes me as unprecedented. The application platform component of it, a big important trend on the internet right now, is just one more piece that almost gets lost in the mix!

I hope it is a success, because I already want to use it both as a user and as a developer.

By: Email – The Original Social Graph | Foundry Group

Email – The Original Social Graph | Foundry Group — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:12:50 +0000

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By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:28:05 +0000

I’m not sure that firstname@lastname.com actually matters that much. My point wasn’t this – it was that the (e.g. jsmith@bigcompany.com) is the atomic element of the social graph.

By: winkjones

winkjones — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:36:43 +0000

i used to work for a company called Netidentity that owned 30,000 + surname-based domains and used them to provide personalized (firstname@lasname.com) email addresses. we always hoped that the use of the email address as the primary identifier would add huge value to the business and allow us to build partnerships with large portals that wanted to build sticky, lasting relationships with their users by giving them a truly personalized identifier. unfortunately, nobody ever bit on this concept, and we got bought based instead on the value of our domains and cash flow from ad clicks. i was surprised to have read your post and see that this idea still might have some legs, if i'm reading it right.

By: vastav

vastav — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:01:21 +0000

Yahoo! open mail is an interesting initiative in this space. Yahoo is working on unlocking the power of social graph in its popular email service. http://www.ymailblog.com/blog/2008/12/give-friend...

By: Email Still Rules « Outside The Box

Email Still Rules « Outside The Box — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:23:11 +0000

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By: SJGolembiewski

SJGolembiewski — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:16:41 +0000

We just finished a major milestone with our order processing and use email as opposed to requiring our manufacturers, distributors and customers to interface with the web application. Today I really put it to the test for the first time and saw very encouraging results. In fact, I've never seen transactions happen so fast.