The conversation thing

I don’t know about you, but I have Ymess since 1998. So that makes approximately 10 years … OMG, until I wrote these words, I did not even realize so much time passed by …

As time went by, I became more and more flooded with people in my messenger list… people that i did not know how to classify anymore… Business, friends, different work places, university … sometimes I have personal friends that I do business with and have done university with … that is a challenge

I know some people have the guts to just delete from their list anyone they have not spoken with in 3 months … I could not do that … so right now I have in my Ymess list 329 ids, categorized into 12 groups. The most relevant groups are only 4, with a total of 56 people…

Hey, Yahoo messenger Project Manager guy … if you are interested in what the consumer would need, please take into considerations these things:

first, groups should have the possibility to include other groups as well

secondly, any contact should have something like tags associated. So when I want to see all business partners, I could see them no matter of what group I’ve listed them in (that would happen, of course, if I correctly and completely tagged my contacts in the Yahoo Messenger list)

Anyway, I do not know how things were possible before, when there was no IMessagging … my entire professional life was accompanied by YM … so I still remember how I was 1 meter away from my colleague, yet, instead of turning to him to tell him something, I would just write on messenger … life is beautiful

Here is Chris Anderson, Wired’s Editor in Chief, in a video about businesses and services becoming free over the internet. I do agree, things become free for the user, but they will most definitely stay payable for the entrepreneur. I mean, yeah, Google gives free services for the end-user… but google advertisement is payed by the ones that want to be advertised.

So digital means free, but not in the sense that services all of a sudden have no value and can be produced without any cent being invested/charged. Digitising means changing the cathegory of people you charge for your services. The revenue stays the same, otherwise the whole economy will suffer a true change. And we’re not yey prepared, since we still have to eat …