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A comment on Ask HN: I Predict the End of Email in 5 Years, What Do You Think?.

Re:Ask HN: I Predict the End of Email in 5 Years, What Do Yo... by PonyGumbo on Saturday February 12, 2011 @11:22AM (#2210298)
Personal communications ("Hey, how are you doing? / Are you busy tonight?") are increasingly drifting to text and social apps, but there are some significant barriers (IMHO) to businesses adopting any existing social platform for communication (namely, loss of control). However, I think it's very likely that mail clients will more closely resemble social apps. Google Wave was a step in that direction, but it wasn't quite ready for prime time.
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Re:Ask HN: I Predict the End of Email in 5 Years, What Do Yo... by epynonymous on Saturday February 12, 2011 @07:59PM (#2211702)
what's to say that facebook couldn't add an administrative interface and multi-tenancy so that businesses could manage and use this without any privacy fears?
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Re:Ask HN: I Predict the End of Email in 5 Years, What Do Yo... by brudgers on Saturday February 12, 2011 @11:24PM (#2212045)
I think you made a typo because you have "business," "Facebook" and "no privacy fears" in the same sentence.
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