Ben Werdmuller·Mar 12, 2010 Activity Streams and OAuth: a social web architecture
My previous post was a response to Gartner’s prediction last month that social networking would replace email as the “primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20 percent of business users.” In it, I named some properties that would need to be held by any social networking system that would successfully replace email.
* Ease of use
* Ubiquity across devices
* Platform, service and infrastructure independence
My argument boiled down to the following statement:
Email has succeededEnterprise·Software development