Why Slack could be the future of conferences [theverge.com]
Slack, of course, is the team collaboration app that rocketed to 1 million daily users and a $2.8 billion valuation in barely a year and a half. At its simplest, it’s a chat room that lives on your laptop and mobile devices. But once Slack is connected to all the other apps and services used by your team, it becomes the central communication hub for your entire organization. When Slack first came out the thought was that it could "kill email." But as great a feat as that might be, Slack’s ultimate impact may actually be larger. It may look like a chatroom, but when you see all the ways people are now using it, Slack starts to feel like anything but.
