David Kearns, writing in Network World, has offered an identity based view of what we do at iotum. Much of what we talked about as we were developing the early designs was the "Who, What, Where, When, Why" of communications. We boiled that down to the overarching concept of relevance, and ultimately identity becamse one of the 3 pillars of Voice 2.0. It’s nice to see someone latch onto those ideas.
He also mentioned that he saw us at ETel. One of the the exciting things I walked away from ETel with was the work being done in identity. Although not part of the main conference, for the most part, there were a gaggle of identity geeks at the show enthusiastically promoting XRI.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
