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This reminds me of something most new communication media seem not to realize: no matter how fancy your new thing is, not everyone will want to try it initially
by taliesinb 14y ago
This reminds me of something most new communication media seem not to realize: no matter how fancy your new thing is, not everyone will want to try it initially, so for God's sake make it bridge to email. Otherwise it will become a ghetto.
I don't think the Wave people understood this; if they had, Wave might have turned out differently.
Asana, on the other hand, made a big deal out of this.
- unimpressive 14y agoMaking something bridge to email doesn't seem terribly difficult. SMTP is; as the name would imply, simple. (At least it seems simple.)
- taliesinb 14y agoTo be a true bridge you need to be bidirectional: to do that you'd need IMAP, not SMTP. IMAP is a bit of a stateful mess of a protocol, unfortunately.