Ines Mergel

Abandonning email for social network sites

In Blogs I read, Social Networks, Social Software, social networking sites on June 29, 2008 at 8:42 pm

The New York Times Technology section had an interesting article this morning: an IBM engineer explains how he moves all his attention away from traditional email in favor of collecting all the information he needs from social network sites instead.

I heard a similar reason earlier this month during a talk about Intellipedia – when Chris Rasmussen mentioned that information is moved out of the traditional email channel into Wikis and Blogs instead. That way it is accessible to everyone and not limited to a pre-specified group of people.