According to Caroline McCarthy’s post “The future of Web apps will see the death of e-mail” refering to the Future of Web Apps conference the days of e-mail are numbered.
The arguments are make sense:
- It’s a noisy spam-filled thing.
- Online identities these days are defined by so much more than e-mail addresses (e.g. urls, social-networking profiles).
- Recently some high-profile e-mail provider crashes took place (e.g. Windows Live Mai, Yahoo Mail).
But on the other hand the internet hasn’t killed television, cars haven’t killed bicycles, rss-feeds haven’t killed newsletters and e-mail itself hasn’t killed snail mail …
