I was just looking into this myself, and a lot of social media sites have internal messaging systems (that seems to be the most common term used to describe them). Jon Yesko pointed me to Flickr's, which is nice--simple and straightforward. Facebook has a decent one too.
2009/3/19 iamshimone <[email protected]>: > Hi all - I'm looking for any resources, examples, literature, > articles etc. around the idea of an online message center. > > eTrade and Wells Fargo (I'm sure others) use message centers in > place of direct email communication. This is a very powerful security > tool - all messages are posted in a central, secure area of their > websites and an email such as "you have a new message in your > inbox" is sent in place of the message itself. > > I tried some Google searches but I'm not even sure what to call > this.. > > Thanks for the help! > Shimone > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
