It’s what people are starting to do with some of the IM applications that is interesting. You can do normal things, post to blog, flickr, twitter etc. But people are now writing clever things that use the IM stuff. I can send one message to IM and instantly get returned my next 20 meetings in my diary. I can add appointments to my calendar with one message. It’s quick, easy and I can do without installing any software and I can do it on the move. Other apps (Jaiku for example) can post automatic updates (to who *you* want) of where you are (triangulates mobile phone signal) by text to people. I dunno there’s just lots happening - a lot is useless but I think things really are moving on more is going to change webwise in the next two years than the last.

It’s got personal and business application. A few is use twitter at work for updates on a particular project. The pm posts updates that we all get automatically. We have been thinking it would be a good way to communicate with the students. We could have a MedSchool account that the students could choose to subscribe to and we can then post to it information that is time critical e.g. cancelled lecture, changed venue, etc etc Students can then subscribe to a rss feed, a text feed, an email update whatever, they decide how they want the info that we provide. It’s just moving on the way information flows.

I still think my twitter at a camp idea was good. Easy way to communicate quickly and cheaply with anyone who wants to receive the information. You just have to think how these things can be used and once you do a lot of the recent stuff is pretty exciting imo. (via coComments by mazportico)