On Jul 21, 2013, at 10:55 AM, "Nicolas Mailhot"
<nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net> wrote:
(state-of-the-art as in, what are Google
and Amazon using to notify their users of events? Mail messages!>
If you're talking about google calendar events, email is used only because even with
Chrome the pop-up notifications only work 1/2 the time.
They
would be ROFL if they were reading this conversation. If it's not done yet
I predict they'll integrate their phones and tablets and notify you of
problems by mail in the next years.)
?? So you think it's a good idea to have low battery, critical software updates, maybe
a virus alert, appear to the user in an email? That really makes no sense, but I'm
otherwise not thinking what else you mean by the above.
I think email is craptastic. There's too much of it in all forms. But the worst is the
kind that comes from automated systems. I want less of this, not more of it. The email UA
paradigm is still overwhelmingly chronologically based. The attempts to prioritize emails
still lack sufficient granularity, even with a lot of work (and on-going work). And it
fails miserably on mobile for the typical user with 1-3 email accounts, so an email of a
hard drive failure gets mixed in with Aunt Edna needing her gall bladder removed in
emergency surgery and Sally who just got a new puppy. Email sucks as a notification
system.
Chris Murphy