In regards to email, google wave took a stab at attempting to change the dynamic of communications but that project has now been shelved. The difficulty in a n

In regards to email, google wave took a stab at attempting to change the dynamic of communications but that project has now been shelved. The difficulty in a new "email" replacement is overcoming the hurdles of engrained habits - see http://zenhabits.net/ http://zenhabits.net/ for more on that psychology or even www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com (people see the inbox as a to do, that they grind through in mechanical fashion). Think to tackle the problem of email is to put a new UI layer that wraps messaging into context while piggybacking off the traditional email protocol. For example, with my own work email we tag are subjects with TASK, FYI, MEETING, FOLLOWUP, FEEDBACK, etc. indicating what action we need done, helps with searching and labels now in gmail, however take that "context" element and combine with say www.trello.com UI concept of boards/cards in a visual dashboard type of style would be stellar. I just imagine something like this on an ipad i am just swipping/slidding through my different buckets of communication (sort of like flipboard). KILL THE INBOX :)