September 24th, 2005
office camouflage
Here is another idea for new software (or skins). Are there already instant messaging tools, that disguise as Excel or Word? Think of chatting inside a few inconspicuous table cells (with the rest of the screen covered by an imitation of actual work) while an overly inspective boss restlessly wanders the offices… Just avoid funny chat partners that make you laugh out loud over next year´s budget calculations.
This should even work with the user making a screenshot of his supposed screen and defining a place, background and text colors for the chat box. So even staff from companies with special software solutions would not be discriminated.
The only way it probably would not make any sense… would be disguising chat as email. :)