Apr 27

Real-Time (Web) Convergence

Tag: software — admin @ 4:56 pm

Question: why are email, facebook, Twitter, chat, RSS, newspapers all separated?

I want to be able to do the same thing for all of them – which was more or less nailed by email a decade ago:

real-time update (push)
mark as read
thread
filter
spam detection
contact management
search

So why not pull all of these into an email client?

I was thinking about this this afternoon, and when I saw a Techcrunch article about Xonbi Facebook integration I had to blog.

2 Responses to “Real-Time (Web) Convergence”

  1. whuffie says:
    August 7th, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    Isn’t that what Google Wave is about?

  2. admin says:
    August 7th, 2009 at 10:34 pm

    It looks like this is a big part of what Google Wave is about, which is cool! My post predates Google IO by a month so I get to feel smart. :-)

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