Just as certain as the change of seasons is the recurring prediction of the end of email.  The Wallstreet Journal published an article yesterday, titled:  “Why Email No Longer Rules… …And what that means for the way we communicate”.

It seems that email is pronounced dead every time a new communication technology gets user traction. The last time around, IM and SMS were replacing email. Now Twitter and Facebook are taking over. Perhaps this is simply driven by our love-hate relationship with email and the fact that our inboxes have gotten so cluttered with useless and sometimes even harmful junk that we are all wishing for alternatives.

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Twitter has been making headlines for weeks, fueled by a celebrity powered media frenzy. With Ashton Kutcher beating CNN to 1 million Twitter followers last Friday and now even Oprah Winfrey joining in – Twitter is surely bracing for the Oprah effect.

So is Twitter over-hyped or the future of electronic communication?

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IBM released last week a new data migration tool intended to ease the movement of large amounts of data from existing content platforms such as SharePoint, Exchange Public Folders, Domino Document Libraries and other repositories (see coverage here, here and here). The tool also provides synchronization capabilities to enable platform coexistence during extended migration periods.

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eWeek brings this story from last week’s Gartner ITxpo in Las Vegas. During an overview presentation of the UCC market, Bern Elliot, Gartner VP and Distinguished Analyst, made the claim that companies must invest in UCC tools in order to attract and retain top talent.

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Just in case there has been any doubt, here is another example of how all electronic communications can be used in court. This eWeek article covers the recent subpoena issued by New York City, to obtain text-messaging records and recipient information related to protests during the Republican National Convention in July of 2004. The event was orchestrated through the now infamous TXTmob tool, which was created by Tad Hirsch, a doctorial candidate at MIT.

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Network World released a test review of enterprise messaging solutions as part of the Clear Choice Tests in which Lotus Sametime came out on top of the pack. Read the rest of this entry »