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From: Peter Fogg (no email)
Date: Thu Sep 01 2005 - 18:57:12 EDT
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.
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