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Re: Whiteboard
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2005 Sep 2, 08:57 +1000
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2005 Sep 2, 08:57 +1000
Marcel wrote > Some time ago I did try out MS and MSN messenger. One of them did actually > have the possibility for sending a handwritten message in a board of > approx. > 5cm x 2cm. I tried it once and found that it is not more than a gadget > and, > at least for me, not useful at all. I thought you were referring to this. > A > space where you just can write two or three handwritten words I did not > consider as being a whiteboard. It is for this reason that I did not even > mention it in my mail. This may be the app known as "Ink". > After your reply I had now again a look at these two programs and, indeed, > the MS messenger has the option for a whiteboard conversation, which I did > not notice before. The board is a little bit larger 6cm x 12cm. The size > seems to me still to small in order to be of real help. May be it can be > enlarged during conversation. So, Peter, yes there is the whiteboard; it > has, as you said, already been invented for the Internet. What remains now > is to find out how useful it actually might be. Yep, this is the bottom line.