{"id":3612,"date":"2012-03-04T20:18:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T01:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=3612"},"modified":"2012-03-04T20:18:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T01:18:40","slug":"future-of-email-is-noemail-the-past-of-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/future-of-email-is-noemail-the-past-of-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Future of email is #noemail &#038; the past of email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting with the past, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/omblog\/post\/origins-of-e-mail-my-mea-culpa\/2012\/03\/01\/gIQAiOD5kR_blog.html\">Washington Post got some hoax busting advice from email historians<\/a> that resulted in a long but not quite satisfying article with some very good links to orthodox and substantiated email histories including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livinginternet.com\/e\/ei.htm\">a section on email from Dave Crocker&#8217;s Living Internet<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multicians.org\/thvv\/mail-history.html\">Tom Van Vleck&#8217;s entry<\/a> that credits Noel Morris as Tom&#8217;s partner in electronic mail creation starting in 1965 (and noted by Noel&#8217;s brother film-maker Earl as discussed earlier on this blog). Success has many fathers, but Tom and Noel are clearly the first to implement a mail program.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Megan Garber writing in The Atlantic discovers what I (and many others) have been claiming right along,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2012\/02\/the-future-of-email-looks-a-lot-like-twitter\/253401\/\"> &#8220;&#8216;The Future of Email&#8217; &#8230; Looks a Lot Like Twitter&#8221;<\/a>. What she discovers is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fluent, a new service that integrates with Gmail (and eventually, its creators say, with other email platforms) to deliver messages in the flowing fashion of a social media feed. The service, built by a team of former Google developers &#8212; the guys responsible for Wave, but don&#8217;t hold that against them &#8212; converts Gmail&#8217;s grids into a message-sharing service that&#8217;s more dynamic and fluid than any kind of letter-writing has been before, giving way to an inbox that&#8217;s not a box at all so much as a Twitter-like feed of information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ve mentioned earlier that Wave was a good idea executed terribly from a social point of view (to say the least). Nonetheless I found it useful as it combined many of my styles of communicating, integrated many of the sites and environments that I used to communicate and allowed me to &#8220;slice and dice&#8221; the various threads and conversations.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no longer interested in how to improve email or it&#8217;s best current implementation &#8211; Gmail &#8212; but if I were I&#8217;d be giving <a href=\"http:\/\/fluent.io\/\">Fluent.io<\/a> a test drive.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"280\" height=\"172\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z07MnBf9QNY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting with the past, Washington Post got some hoax busting advice from email historians that resulted in a long but not quite satisfying article with some very good links to orthodox and substantiated email histories including a section on email from Dave Crocker&#8217;s Living Internet and Tom Van Vleck&#8217;s entry that credits Noel Morris as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3613,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions\/3613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}