Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Romancing AIM: When An Ellipsis is Just an Ellipsis

filed under: Design for Sex, Dating 2.0 by Melissa Gira

ichat

Reason #87557 not to have emo conversations over AIM: the dreaded ellipsis as you wait for a response to any number of potentially devastating questions. Worse yet, the ellipsis appears, then disappears, appears, then disappears. Then, finally, maybe: a message.

And repeat.

This is why they preferred clay tablets once.

thanks to my ichat demo fellow above, who i actually started dating before IM even existed, ha!

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  1. Nabil January 9, 2007 9:15 pm

    This is far too topical to my past few days, but totally agreed.

    Also, on a geekery side note, if you hit command+shift+4, and then hit the space bar, you can automagically take a screenshot of JUST the selected window, without any background edges. Makes for really crisp, clean screencaps. :)