IM Roadmap

The folks over at Inc. magazine have finally caught up to 1999 and gave virtual offices a shot.  Guess what?  The world didn’t end, much to the surprise of some of the management and participants.  Actually, often lead to higher productivity.

Here’s the transcript from an interview on NPR’s Marketplace show recently.  I’ll return to this and write more soon when I have more time.

Cheers,

Eric

Many chat, instance messaging and presence applications already do something like this, but MindAlign (here, here and here) needs the behavior where when someone changes their presence from “Offline” or “Away” to “Online” their chat window pops out of your dock, plays a sound, or alerts you in some other way.  This will be particularly helpful where you are trying to track someone down but they are unresponsive.  You could then immediately see when they are back online and available.

This is a very basic, but annoyingly absent, bit of functionality that all enterprise instance messaging products should support.

Cheers,

Eric

Dipity for “Instant Messaging” web search: