Comments on: Harbors in the Ocean of E-mail

By: Spyware Removal

Spyware Removal — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:25:00 +0000

I agree email is takes up so much of everyone’s time now. I remember when emails were not critical, now if you don’t answer your email it is worst than not answering your phone.

By: Remove Spyware

Remove Spyware — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:55:00 +0000

Thanks for your article!

By: Remove Spyware

Remove Spyware — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:55:41 +0000

Thanks for your article!

By: recover deleted files

recover deleted files — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:15:07 +0000

Are you familiar with Tim Ferris at all? Like you mentioned in this article he advocates not being connected to your email all day. In fact, he recommends that you only look at your email twice a day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. That way the rest of the day will not be distracted by sifting through your emails!

By: Halloween Costumes

Halloween Costumes — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:27:45 +0000

Emails are great. They are needed in the business world. I do hate all of the spam but emails have cut down on a lot of phone calls. 15 emails can be answered faster then 15 phone calls. I also love the Facebook and Twitter because it has eliminated most of all the emails from family and friends. (except the ones that just have to send jokes, lots of jokes) All in all it is great!

By: spyware removal

spyware removal — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:05:26 +0000

“Finally, social networking tools like Facebook and Twitter let people tell their far-flung friends and colleagues what they’re up to without sending a single email, and also let them keep on top of their networks without opening the Inbox. These tools have a very interesting property; they let us dip into the stream of friends’ updates when it’s convenient for us, not when it’s convenient for the updater (as would be the case with email). These updates tend to be less time-critical and less private, and so don’t really belong in our personal Inboxes. Instead, they float by in an ether that we can jump into whenever we like. Leisa Reichelt calls this ability to dip at will into the lives of our friends and/or the workstreams of our colleagues ‘ambient intimacy,’ which I think is a lovely phrase.”

Ambient intimacy is a lovely phrase, but most of the time it is “noisy annoyance” as we are updated with useless information that we could care less about. I get tired of people chronically updating us to the mundanity of their lives!

By: A.C.

A.C. — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:26:07 +0000

I agree, so much of my time is wasted on junk email even though my company spends way more than they should for supposed spam blockers.

By: ITIL Training

ITIL Training — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:47:29 +0000

Many of us might have witnessed the explosive growth of electronic and communications technologies which took place since the 1980s. It was not only limited to the American continent but spread worldwide as well. Throughout those two decades, many high tech companies like Microsoft, Intel, IBM etc switched gears to create affordable computers, Internet applications, cell phones, and a dozen other electronics/multimedia based products for use in the office and at home.

Information technologies, however, made their presence felt on the productivity of businesses worldwide. Every industry starting from manufacturing and ending at retail benefited from these technology advances. There’s no doubt that Internet applications have made things much simpler for everyone. Hi-tech solutions are growing at an ever faster rate. It is hard to imagine were we will be in 10 years.

By: halloween costumes

halloween costumes — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:54:17 +0000

The rise of applications like Facebook, Twitter surely indicate that people are fed up with emails. As we move along, and these applications get better integrated with Mobiles, emails will start finding their place in rest.
This is my personal opinion.

By: online dating

online dating — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:15:17 +0000

Managed RSS is a simple and effective approach to cutting email overload. Managed RSS provides a single XML syndication framework for the entire organization. A managed RSS system provides the tools to move content onto publish-subscribe channels and away from email on an enterprise wide basis.

Although, I think every social network should have a lightweight App to display alerts like Messenger instead of keep sending emails for every minor notifications.