{"id":10908,"date":"2007-11-15T13:04:01","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T10:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/15\/social-network-through-the-email\/"},"modified":"2007-11-15T13:04:01","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T10:04:01","slug":"social-network-through-the-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/15\/social-network-through-the-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Social network through the email"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\">Slashdot<\/a> runs the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=07\/11\/14\/2324242&amp;from=rss\">Turning E-Mail into a Social Network<\/a>&#8221; post, which links to this <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/13\/inbox-20-yahoo-and-google-to-turn-e-mail-into-a-social-network\/index.html?ex=1352696400&amp;en=b7f0d6a896f23bec&amp;ei=5088&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">article about Google and Yahoo approach<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ignore Orkut, OpenSocial, Yahoo Mash and Yahoo 360. Google and Yahoo have come up with new and very similar plans to respond to the challenge from MySpace and Facebook: They hope to turn their e-mail systems and personalized home page services (iGoogle and MyYahoo) into social networks.<br \/>\nWeb-based e-mail systems already contain much of what Facebook calls the social graph \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the connections between people. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why the social networks offer to import the e-mail address books of new users to jump-start their list of friends. Yahoo and Google realize that they have this information and can use it to build their own services that connect people to their contacts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This feels very natural.  Both Google and Yahoo indeed aggregate a lot of personal data and a lot of personal relationships (who knows who, who emails who and how often, etc).  It&#8217;s logical to assume that they want to expand what they have, and social networks is one of the ways to go.<\/p>\n<p>So, why email?\u00c2\u00a0 Email has a number of advantages over other media:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Everybody has an email account.\u00c2\u00a0 And everybody knows how to use one.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s almost as widely used as mobile telephony.<\/li>\n<li>Email is very flexible &#8211; texts, HTML, attachments, links, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Email is an open standard &#8211; there are many clients, servers, web services, plugins, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Email is easy to convert to other media &#8211; IM chats, blogs, SMS, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Email is often integrated with other tools, such as addressbooks, calendars, todo lists, reminders, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Email supports both one-on-one and group communications (mailing lists).<\/li>\n<li>Email is easy to remember (not like a phone number or ICQ UIN), lookup and share.<\/li>\n<li>Social networks are often about messaging.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I wish email was better integrated with half of the social networks that I use.\u00c2\u00a0 Most of them use some sort of their own messaging system.\u00c2\u00a0 Some don&#8217;t even provide any messaging at all.\u00c2\u00a0 And all of them would have to do much less work if they relied more on email.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad to see that Google and Yahoo realize this.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Slashdot runs the &#8220;Turning E-Mail into a Social Network&#8221; post, which links to this article about Google and Yahoo approach: Ignore Orkut, OpenSocial, Yahoo Mash and Yahoo 360. Google and Yahoo have come up with new and very similar plans to respond to the challenge from MySpace and Facebook: They hope to turn their e-mail &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/15\/social-network-through-the-email\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social network through the email<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[72,2068,1152,842],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-email","tag-google","tag-social-networks","tag-yahoo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11014,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/08\/yahoo-life-anybody\/","url_meta":{"origin":10908,"position":0},"title":"Yahoo Life! anybody?","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"(Side note: punctuation in product names sure makes headlines confusing) Mashable has a post about upcoming Yahoo Life! 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