ZDNet’s Matt Miller (the Mobile Gadgeteer) has posted a short piece on iotum Talk-Now for Blackberry. He nails the story when he says:
The application doesn’t simply broadcast the same availability to everyone, but uses a Relevance Engine to determine what status is shown to your contact based upon relationships you have established and what you are actually doing.
Exactly!
When we built Talk-Now, we simply repurposed the information in the iotum Relevance Engine to reflect availability and willingness to converse, as opposed to using that information to filter calls. Talk-Now is a New Presence application.
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.
