To add to this is that anyone can email me, but only my friends will IM, Twitter, private msg me…this means when I see a message at these places I know they are priority as they are from people I trust.

In saying this Jeremiah’s post above mentioned xobni that does this sort of priorty, but still I’d rather my communications in context.

eg. I want comments about my Slideshare presentation in Slideshare, not as an email, this way the conversation revolves around the object.

Once we have a dashboard (startpage) to all these places that solves that, but then email is still being used as a notification stream, that is solved by something like Fuser, which can also be a widget on your dashboard…this frees up your email inbox to be just for private stuff (mostly one-to-one).

But most of all email is not social, it’s closed, it’s static, there’s no discovery…this is no place for ideas and brilliant conversation to live now is it!

That said, a company that could aggregate email, IM logs, twitter, social networks, blog data, and more could make one hell of a ‘passive’ social network. I think google is already 2/3 of the way there.

I actually wrote a full blog post about this (shameless plug); seeing as it ties into what you’re talking about I thought you might be interested in it.

Great blog BTW!