Future of Email Fragmentation of Comm. Channel Overdue Innovations Web mail Web site messaging (FB messages) “email hasn’t changed much in the twelve years” Instant Messaging Skyping (text+voice) long-form messages, … too good at that third task Twittering/FB status update Text messaging (sms) "I want my ‘messages’, not necessarily my ‘emails’." Blogging (each post is a message) Comments on social media Social gestures (actions in the news feed) Device agnostic, … “For kids, however, email is often not as useful as text messaging” zSoup, Inc. Feb. 2008

“Consumer” Semantic Web Web 2.0 is a poor man’s semantic web. I think the poor man's view is about to start getting richer. – Peter Rip Bundle of References Main URLs : http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/inbox-20-yahoo-and-google-to-turn-e-mail-into-a-social-network/ Slate Article http://slate.com/id/2177969/pagenum/all/#page_start http://www.slate.com/id/2165452/ http://www.slate.com/id/2074042/ Thought Provoking Brainstorming : http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/11/messaging-not-e.html http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/11/smtp-is-dead-lo.html http://blog.tomevslin.com/2007/11/thinking-aloud.html http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/11/the-biggest-soc.html http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/11/email-contacts-.html http://microsoftstartupzone.com/blogs/the_next_big_thing/archive/2007/11/15/macromyopia-overestimating-the-short-term-and-underestimating-the-long-term.aspx zSoup, Inc. JaeSung Ro | Founder jrocool@tusavvy.com Tel : 82-31-701-9712 Skype : jrocool zSoup, Inc. Feb. 2008