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Peter, referring to your mail

> Marcel wrote
>
> " Skype: It is sofar the best for voice communication from PC to PC. It
> ...
> SghtSpeed: Is probably the best program for voice and webcam, it needs ...
> That is as far as the "whiteboard" is concerned. The "blackboard" that I
> mentioned during a discussion with George is still waiting to be
> invented."
>
> No. You haven't even approached the application I discussed, which WAS
> specifically a whiteboard (or blackboard, the colour is irrelevant) that
> MAY
> offer just what has been wished for here on a number of occasions.
>
> Stop worrying about being nerds, guys, and try to concentrate here ...

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.



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.



In my mail I tried to mention advantages and disadvantages of possible
communication tools going beyond e-mail. Whether such a tool is "useful" or
not depends on the situation and the intention of the user himself.



Marcel

   

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