Comments on: How twitter makes me look at emails differently

By: Laurent FP

Laurent FP — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:11:56 +0000

Completely agree about the subject line. As for the @, I’m thinking that its better to be sure the person has had a “chance” to read it (on twitter) than being unsure that they have received an email message.

By: Erwood

Erwood — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:27:52 +0000

Speaking of @, even with a twitter reshuffle, it might be dead anyway. A friend recently told me that his teen-age sister did not like @ as you never knew if the recipient had received it!

By: Laurent FP

Laurent FP — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:53:30 +0000

Let me try Pownce once more but I really prefer thinking about converging all of those multiplying communication channels.

As for shooting messages (in the broad sense) using shortcuts and across media makes perfect sense. The body of an email becomes the attachment!

By: Nicolas (aka nicolas_)

Nicolas (aka nicolas_) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:47:28 +0000

Too much people do not use the subject line of emails properly, using them like teasers -”Answer me asap !”, “Did I told you ?”-, or with one single meaningless word -”Tonight”, “house”, “Ruby”-.

It’s too hard to change the mentality of everyone, but hey… there must be a way to show emails in a different fashion!

By: Leafar

Leafar — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:30:28 +0000

That’s it… faster, better, funnier.

For the attach part, you should try pownce (Kevin R.’s startup).

The thought that actually came to my mind is that we should use subject in mails like twitter.

Allow 140 characters to say what you will be talking about. Young will probably beheave like that and make the mail better again. it’s only a matter of usage.

Give me twitter line in subject and a mail shooter (a place to just write @ d “all”OpenCoffe would be like steroids)and I’ll get back to email in a sec’ because that’s why i’m using twitter for.

I do use only the web for twitter because i can close it like i do with my thunderird.

Laurent work faster !!