To Kill Office E-Mail, Slack Needs to Learn How Non-Geeks Work - Businessweek

Another take on activity streams; business model tbd (currently "free to use for as long as you want and with an unlimited number of people")

"Work is broken—or at least, that’s what Silicon Valley seems to think.

The startup Slack, which has developed a type of anti-e-mail system, just raised $43 million in funding at a valuation of $220 million from investors that include Social+Capital Partnership, Accel Partners, and Andreessen Horowitz. It’s not the first New Work startup to raise a bunch of money, and it’s not going to be the last. The death of e-mail appears to be the technology industry’s growing obsession."

To Kill Office E-Mail, Slack Needs to Learn How Non-Geeks Work - Businessweek