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June 11, 2004
AOL IM Blurrage
Posted by Gregory Narain
Stowe's latest Darwin piece talks about the 4Cs (Communication, Coordination, Collaboration, and Community) and the seemingly inevitable blurring/convergence that is happening as software tools evolve to their more advanced, and potentially useful, social tools status.
In a quick and dirty example of this transgression, AIM's new plans shed some useful light:
"We're making (AOL Instant Messenger) a new front door for communications services," said Ed Fish, senior vice president of AOL's desktop messaging unit. "We think it's becoming the new phone."
[...]
"The idea of being able to escalate an instant-messaging session to an audio conference is new," said Andy Nilssen, an analyst at Wainhouse Research. "We've been waiting for it, and there's good demand for it."
Source: News.com, "AOL unveils premium instant-messaging services"
Blurrage indeed.
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1. Peter Caputa on June 11, 2004 12:37 AM writes...
That is blurraged Fersure. I can't wait for the all in one "Co" appliance. Or can I?
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