So, Yahoo fights back against other giants by promising better email service for users. Some people claimed Yahoo saw email users were valuable in a way that once they had logged into their email accounts, they tended to have surfed more of other Yahoo’s services since there was no need for subsequent logins. I see Yahoo is trying to resuscitate its reputation of being a giant Internet company or at the least showing the world that Yahoo still cares about everything progress. Unfortunately, I don’t see better email service will help Yahoo in anyway, but at the least Yahoo will reassure users that Yahoo got games, still. I’m sure this will also reassure some of Yahoo’s partners and business customers.
Should I say email is outdated? Not really, in fact I believe email will morph as a part of something way cooler in the future. Unfortunately, I can only see either one or two biggest giants will be able to deliver something like that. What am I talking about? Well, it is an educated guess of mine that in the future, people more likely to have a personal avatar on the web from the most popular Internet company that will be able to melt all features together as one. Such features probably will be everything Facebook and Twitter and everything else. How email fits in? Email probably will function like instant messenger, but for your eyes only and will last as long as email messages. After all, Twitter like feature is more fitting for getting scoff at or scoffing at someone else’s short message of the day.
Perhaps, even better, everything will become traits of a personal avatar. Such personal avatar can become really personal as it will follow you everywhere. Let say, you go into a retail store to buy some clothes, you will interact with some electronic devices that will be able to summon your personal avatar to help you shop. In a way, this toonish personal avatar may be intelligent enough to understand what is best for you; according to your personal preference, this avatar helps you make decisions on almost anything. This personal avatar doesn’t have to be toonish, because it can transform itself into 3D, or perhaps it will pilot a robot body when it has to. It can then ghostly possess your car on your demands to help you navigate away to your favorite destinations. Basically, it helps you from social networking to doing everyday things without standing out like a sore thumb.
Perhaps, the idea of better email service has no longer had that attractive power like it once used to be. We can no longer be impressed with something simple and powerful as email, because we live in a fragmented and messy web. I think it is more meaningful to collectively bring together everything web which has its elegant ways of interacting with us humans — truly making humans more productive and less wasting time in immersing with just a tool or an elegant/personal avatar. Did I forgot, this personal avatar of yours not only can help you do email and hosts of other things, but it may be able to combat computer virus too? Come on, it’s a soul of everything web. To put it in another manner, it’s only software, and we know software can be so innovative to a point of the sky is the limit.
In conclusion, it is good to know Yahoo is upgrading its email system again. Yahoo users will be able to enjoy better email service. Perhaps, people who had left Yahoo’s email service for Google or another may venture back to Yahoo’s email service again after the upgrade. Just that I think email is no longer the ultimate flavor, because everything web has too much to offer. In fact the web is one heck of a maze, but if we can collectively harness the web in a more elegant way such as having a personal avatar which represents you to the web and represents the web to you and represent everything else that has to do with electronic and software and lifestyle to you and you only, isn’t this way more beautiful than just a fragmented web and gadgets and so on? Yes, it represents you to other email users, and vice versa.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110524/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_yahoo_email
Vinh Nguyen
