Habeus: Email Remains Primo Communication Method

The comments from the current students in this article are interesting. The burning question on everyone's mind is whether email will be killed by social networks. The big hurtle to social networks displacing email is interoperability. Until I can send messages from my FaceBook account to friends on MySpace we will see social networks develop along a similar path to instant messaging. With the advent of each new IM tool, I ended up with friends at Yahoo! and Hotmail, while my colleagues at the time in Digital Impact relied on AIM. Third party tools like Meebo have resolved this problem but it has been years in the making.