The Evolution of Instant Message
I ran into a company who had a great idea of how to enhance instant message (http://www.thoughtslinger.com/). They took the concept of contacts, presence, and chat and incorporated into a word processor. This way users can write a document using a common word processor interface, but can get the benefit of an instant messenger. The value proposition they propose is that now a team of people can write a document in real time and keep track of each other’s changes.
The program still appears to be in its beta stages. Some additional features it should include before I could really use this:
- Program Stability - The program froze on me. I was using a MacBook Pro
- Email Invite - I would like to invite people that are not in your database. Allow me to enter an email address and you send out the email.
- Open Social Integration - Think about integrating with open social and leveraging my existing network.
- Instant Message Tool Integration - It would be great for you to integrate with an existing instant messaging tool so I can use my existing contacts.
- Drag and Drop Page Content - I would like to drag and drop content on the page to organize my document. This should be very easy to do and intuit.
I look forward to seeing how this tool evolves. Best of luck Thought Slinger
Tags: Collaboration, Google Docs, Instant Message, Office, Thought Slinger