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To summarise, email - that insecure, yet open and mature standard - still beats, hands down without breaking a sweat, the latest fad websites' cool metrics of p
by alexchamberlain 13y ago
To summarise, email - that insecure, yet open and mature standard - still beats, hands down without breaking a sweat, the latest fad websites' cool metrics of performance.
It would be very interesting to compare this to whatever is current in 10 years time. I seriously hope we have at least started to consider replacing email by then.
- csomar 13y agoI can't up-vote this enough. This can go two ways: 1. Show you how open standards are important. This might be an argument for Bitcoin vs. Banks. 2. Tells you that the email business is ridiculously huge. Much bigger than Facebook Sharing, Google Searches or anything else for that matter.
- solistice 13y ago@2. But it's not easily harnessable, being essentially invisible, so it doesn't get as much rep. Facebook, Google, etc. are like Continents and Countries. Emails...that's the Ocean.
- dkrich 13y ago1. Show you how open standards are important. This might be an argument for Bitcoin vs. Banks. Eh? Speaking for the US, the Federal Reserve Bank is the US equivalent of a standard protocol. Before a central bank existed, states and colonies had their own currencies which created many problems, which makes your argument for open standards quite good. Which is why I don't think any paid service will ever beat a protocol for communication. Email may eventually diminish (I see no evidence of this forthcoming anytime soon, though), but I don't think it will be replaced by anything other than a better protocol on top of which independent services will be built.
- pluies_public 13y agoKeeping in mind 80-92% of it is spam, depending on studies (wikipedia numbers from 2010 apparently, if anyone has a more up-to-date source that'd be grand).