Not only that but MSN is an unencrypted protocol. If you went to a busy campus, and ran Wireshark, you could do worse.

Actually at present, we don’t even SEE the users messages anywhere at our servers, and the sourcecode comes with the download right now, so it’s pretty transparent what we do.

Generally it’s funny and not annoying, sometimes even *usefull*.
Especially if you can’t remember the name of some musician your friend is talking about. It really helps jog the memory.

It’s even more usefull if you are learning languages. Seeing images of concepts you haven’t fully learnt the word for, could accelerate language learning.

The objective is to provide a compelling exploration of what the users are Instant Messaging about. We aren’t at this stage yet. For example: if I said I had my keyboard broken on my laptop, it’s unlikely it’d show a picture of a laptop with a broken keyboard, but if i wanted to blog about this, this is exactly the picture I need to represent this with Visual Language. Our phrase finding needs improving, with concept relatedness adding, but it’s all very do-able.

We just released blogging from IM conversations. We have a new download up on the site, no screenshots up yet though!

I should add, we ARE looking for investment.