[spitfire]

Why? What is broken about email? It pops up instantly with imap, it's available to everyone and is very standardized.

facebook, twitter and linkedin are poor copies or niche tools. email is simple and flexible. You can write love letters or close serious business deals with it.

email, is here to stay because it is the simplest most flexible tool.

[RobIsIT]

This is exactly my point. We've seen several iterations of online marketing. Short of spam, e-mail has been such a powerful messaging platform that it hasn't changed - and hasn't needed to.

I don't think that e-mail is perfect. I think that there is something better. I don't know what it is and neither do the current batch of social network powerhouses. It's out there though - email conversion rates are far too low for it to be the end solution :)