{"id":1302,"date":"2010-08-26T00:47:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T08:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/26\/links-8-25-2010\/"},"modified":"2010-08-26T00:47:24","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T08:47:24","slug":"links-8-25-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/26\/links-8-25-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Links: 8-25-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewmcafee.org\/2006\/09\/the_9x_email_problem\/\">The 9X Email Problem<\/a><br \/>      In most companies, groupware didn&rsquo;t solve the problem; it wasn&rsquo;t that much better than email. &nbsp;&#8230;&nbsp;But that&rsquo;s not really the critical consideration. &nbsp;The critical consideration is brutally simple: &nbsp;are these tools 9 times better than email for collaboration?\n<p>Consider how high this sets the bar. &nbsp;Email is freeform, multimedia (especially with attachments), WYSIWYG, easy to learn and use, platform independent, social, and friendly to&nbsp; mouse-clickers and keyboard-shortcutters alike. &nbsp;It&rsquo;s the ultimate example of what Dion Hinchcliffe calls a &lsquo;comfort app&lsquo; (a phrase I love, and plan to steal (with attribution) shamelessly). &nbsp;It would actually be a pretty tough competitor even if it weren&rsquo;t the universally-used incumbent, and so the beneficiary of the 9X problem. &nbsp;In short, it&rsquo;s not going anywhere.<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/email\">email<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/socialsoftware\">socialsoftware<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/activitystreams\">activitystreams<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/ui\">ui<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/ux\">ux<\/a> )<\/p>\n<p\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 9X Email Problem In most companies, groupware didn&rsquo;t solve the problem; it wasn&rsquo;t that much better than email. &nbsp;&#8230;&nbsp;But that&rsquo;s not really the critical consideration. &nbsp;The critical consideration is brutally simple: &nbsp;are these tools 9 times better than email for collaboration? Consider how high this sets the bar. &nbsp;Email is freeform, multimedia (especially with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/26\/links-8-25-2010\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links: 8-25-2010<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}