<div>I find that Skype is pretty much like this. We've got ongoing multi-person chat sessions for our dev team in Skype, and I find that if I miss a day or two, when I come back it's all automagically available in the chat history (which is all available inline anyway).
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<div>Our day to day trivial "water cooler" stuff happens in IM. More complex ideas get communicated in email. If I'm really forced to, I might actually use Word to write something up, but pretty much only when required by external forces (eg: a client wants a "document"). When people need to really interact, we use voip + gotomeeting (for voice communication + shared desktop).
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 05/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Dougherty</b> <<a href="mailto:msd001@gmail.com">msd001@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><span class="q">On 10/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:nvitamore@austin.rr.com" target="_blank">
nvitamore@austin.rr.com</a></b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:nvitamore@austin.rr.com" target="_blank">nvitamore@austin.rr.com</a>> wrote:
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Anyone have thoughts on this?<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061002-7877.html" target="_blank">
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061002-7877.html</a><br></blockquote></div><br></span>my thought is that convergence isn't happening quickly enough. We don't need to distinguish between IM and Email. We need only to express an idea towards a recipient. If you are available via IM, we should be communicating with a low latency of about every 5 words to a full sentence. If you are not available, my entire stream of IM idea-a-grams should automatically coalesce into the notion of an email which you catch up on when you return to availability. If I then want that message to be consumed by a group, the thoughts should be tagged in a way that authenticates the group members to have access to the content. If I want no access restrictions, then my IM/email/blog is world-readable. I want a Wiki-style page that I can grant R/W/RW access to nobody/one friend/all friends/everybody or any combination.
<br><br>The same slow convergence trend is in personal electronics too. Why do I have to decide if I want the 40Gb or 60Gb iPod - If you put wi-fi in it then I wouldn't need more than 2Gb and my media could live on a server and stage the 'next 3' songs on the device for playback. Caching software is smart enough to anticipate my playlist requirements. If you network enable the music player, why not put a phone in it? Oh yeah, that's already been done. But then why doesn't that device have a good camera?
1.3megapixels? that's not good, that's pre-Y2K. Let's start with a 5MP camera and add phone, no lets add PDA, no music, etc. Why can't we have one device that has all these things in it? Because people keep spending their money to get the next <slightly> cooler gadget in an effort to stay on the cutting edge.
<br><br></rant><br><br>I'm sure this is similar to "kids" adoption of the telephone 60+ years ago. Or radio however many more years ago, or any technology that was once unavailable until it became ubiquitous. the only people who worry about being "old" because they haven't adopted the "hip" thing are already hopelessly uncool anyway.
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