Occasionally you stumble across something that makes you go hmmmm…this could be interesting.

For those of you that didn’t like IM because of the ‘trail’ it left when discussing ’sensitive’ topics, this might be for you.

Apparently, BigString (historically, providers of free email) will be launching an AIM plugin on Wednesday that will ’self-destruct’ IM messages sent, on demand. It deletes traces of them on both computers, as well as any server.

While this doesn’t seem directly like an advertising or marketing opportunity for advertisers, it could probably be co-opted, or sponsored, if the right brand was out there.

I bet there are plenty of IMs that you’ve wish you never sent. Would’ve been nice to have this then.

More information is available here.

With all the talk about Twitter, it seems that there is still room for technological advancements in the world of instant messaging.

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