Instant Messaging
topic on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
the Knowledge Project 
the Neon Show 
20VC
3 statements about Instant Messaging, every show
Sakoda: Instant messaging reached 200M users in 18 months
“The messaging went from almost no users to two hundred million users in 18 months. It was at the time the fastest growing communications medium of all time.”
Abrams: Netscape Missed Webmail And Messaging Due To Lack Of Focus
“Netscape had a lot of opportunities it didn't actually successfully achieve, because if you think about so many of the things that came after, you think, why didn't, you know, why wasn't Netscape the company that did web mail and instant messaging and just so …”
Annello: Workplace instant messaging platforms destroy deep focus worse than email
“The people who work there are now expected to use them, and that intrudes upon any time that they may have spent actually focusing on something and working, because when the IM window pops up, it's like email, but worse, and now it's even more frictionless.”