Shorter meetings

The ever-resourceful IBM is seeking to patent a meeting scheduling system which allows variable time-slots to be selected, arguing that the hour or half-hour chunks offered by current systems waste time, as meetings spread through inertia to fill.

As a specialist in chairing 17 minute meetings, the idea appeals to me - but then, to take full value, everyone else's calendar or diary has to allow that sort of narrow scheduling. That may be another ambition for IBM, but I feel it's too late to oust the Outlook and Google calendars.

Thanks to Tim and The Register.