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Gold/Mining/Energy : Sideware Systems - SYD.u/V, SDWSF -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gator who wrote (2830)	3/12/1998 7:10:00 PM
From: jocko	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6076

Hi Gator.....By jove, I believe you are correct :-) I just sent a copy of sly's "explaination of hotnotions" to Bill, Sue, Ron, Joe, and David at CNBC..... I also suggested that John Bollinger could even have some fun at work with hotnotions :-) Posted by Sly on March 12, 1998 at 14:04:44: First off I had a chance to report some minor improvements to SYD programmers today concerning hotnotions. This is the Beta version. They will be acting on our suggestions and also opening up the groups soon. Hotnotions provides 4 tools into 1 package from what I see. 1) Alert Messaging. This is the easiest feature to use and works wonderfully. You can send an alert message to someone inside your group or all the members at once and instantly no matter what weg page they are at,,they will get you message in their screen and be able to reply. Only suggestion I made was to remove the original message as right now after replying the original message stays on your screen so you have to hit close to get rid of it. It becomes cumbersome if you get more than one alert message at a time and have to close each one. So an automatic close feature once a reply is sent would be good. 2) A virtual Real time Chat Board. The Hotnotions icon sits on the task bar for Windows 95 users. If you drag and drop a note on a page you have instantly created a message board. You can then compose information within this note/board. If other users are in the group and at the same Webpage they also will see the note and be able to chat with you. ie. real time chat. Be aware that the note itself is moveable. So it doesn't have to stay in the middle of the page. I tend to move it to the upper right hand corner big enough to read the messages but small enough that it doesn't impact the view of the webpage. One of the problems is that if there are many users at one time chating inside this note..only one person can post at a time. This prevents too many notes being flashed at once but also means that you have to wait for the other person to finish composing and distributing before you can start typing. it also explains why the flash light is used changing colours from green to yellow to red. Another problem we encountered last night is if the note gets too large you start losing information. There is a 5k limit per note right now. The real version will rectify this problem. 3) bulletin Board...by droping a note on a site. If other's don't want to post immediately and have a live chat the note becomes a bulletin board. You can add a message within it at a later in time. in fact by using explore notes feature you can see all the notes that have been created within a group and add your own notes(time stamp them) and all whenever you want. So it becomes a chat board like stockhouse but is placed on the webpage you choose. This is a very good feature..especially when they open up the groups and passwords are required. By dropping a note at a companies URL the company could make use of a virtual message board over their website without having to instal a chat board. As mentioned above it can also become live chat when multiple users are there at one time. 4) Navigational..when you drag and drop a note. Go into the note and click alert message within the note. this will send the URL to the members of the group. They can now click go to URL and they will automatically be sent to the URL you just placed your note to engage in live chat there. Very usefull for group research purposes and group surfing. Overall, I like the product. There are some improvements required. But I see a lot uses for this amongst both Business and Personal Users. The multi features are what makes it special and distinguises it from the others in this field. Sly