Ross make a great point on Email 2.0:

The reason we are building Web 2.0 is because we were not able to build Email 2.0. The first web didn’t support our social needs, so we used email for everything. But we couldn’t really hack it. Most social software has by now adapted to email, but email could never have adapted to it.

Beautiful.

Speaking of email's inadequacies, it was only a year ago, more or less, that I led the ill-fated panel on The Future of Email at Supernova. Several folks mentioned that flare-up out at the Web 2.0 conference, and how antique the whole controversy seems now. I basically stated that email blows, and that other forms of communication were going to replace it, until nothing was left but the stuff that looks suspiciously like spam. Man! that seems so ten years ago.