[Sigia-l] Is email dead, too?

[Frank Shepard]

I think there is more to it than this. Using the mail service on
Myspace, for instance, is experientially different from using regular
email. Every time you send a message, you do so through an interaction
with someone's profile. I think that this limitation -- the so-called
walled-garden -- actually promotes the production of more messages.
This is because a person's profile offers many things that his or her
friends might write about: new pictures, new comments, new friends,
new  blog, new music, updated biography, new people, etc. Just going
to the site and viewing a friend's profile can create the urge to send
a message -- an urge that you might not have otherwise. So, I think
that these limitations actually promote communication (however trivial
it may be).

Frank

On 7/19/07, Ziya Oz <listera at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Jonathan Baker-Bates:
>
> > Why are they sacrificing ubiquity?
>
> When all/most of your buddies are on the same platform, ubiquity is
> redefined for you.
>
> Just a few years ago if your page worked even exclusively on IE you had
> ubiquity. Today 30-40% of European users are on Firefox. Before that it was
> the AOL walled garden. It seems every generation redefines its own version
> of ubiquity. :-)
>
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