The early e-mail services could send messages only within their own walls (rather as Facebook's messaging does today). Instant-messaging, too, started closed, but is gradually opening up. In social networking, this inevitable evolution may just be beginning.
Illustration by David Symonds. Courtsey The Economist.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
The next step in social evolution
→ in joysome pursuit of interesting ideas, a frothy cappuccino & a good movie → market segment manager at IBM → (views expressed here are my own, not my employer's)