Slam is a Microsoft Research Community Technologies Group research
project, developed in conjunction with the Microsoft Photo and Imaging
eXperience (PIX) team. It is a mobile device-based
application that enables lightweight, group-centric real-time communication,
location awareness and photo-sharing.
The core concept behind Slam is a “Slam”, a group of people
with whom you can exchange messages and photos. When you send a message in
Slam, it is automatically sent to everyone in the group to which you sent it.
For smartphone users that have the Slam client installed, their phone will buzz
and they will have an indication on their phone’s home screen that there is a
new message. For SMS users, they will receive the message as an SMS from the
Slam server. Like smartphone users, SMS users can be members of multiple slam
groups. SMS users will send / receive messages to a different phone number for
each slam group they a member of.