New Presence

Clarity Communications Systems brews up a mix of location and PTT

February 16, 2007

I had the opportunity to chat with Clarity Communications Systems Inc VP of Business Development Tom Carter earlier this week.   Clarity is a wireless company focused on location based services and push to talk. They differentiate from competitors like Kodiak in two ways: market focus, and technology.  Kodiak is targeting the tier 1 player with a circuit switch [...]

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ZDNet: Talk-Now shows availability based upon relationship

January 21, 2007

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 [...]

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A visit to Melville, NY

January 17, 2007

Howard and I took the opportunity afforded by our Air Canada North American unlimited passes to make a trip to Melville NY, yesterday, and debut iotum Talk-Now to the Pulver Team.  Suffice it to say that an hour or two of quality time with Jeff, Scott, Carl and Jonathan is time well spent.  I can safely [...]

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Seeking testers

January 4, 2007

I had a quick chat with Russ Shaw this afternoon.  In addition to his VoIP duties, Russ runs the BBHub blog, a site for all things Blackberry.  I asked him if he could help recruit some folks to play with iotum Talk-Now, the Blackberry application we’ve been building.  He’s posted a message to the world [...]

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Calendars and buddy lists: both flawed presence metaphors

December 28, 2006

I’ve had a fascinating backburner conversation concerning the role of calendaring in the New Presence model.  Calendars are a marvelously rich source of input to New Presence engines, including: Whether the calendar owner is generally free or busy at the moment. What the calendar owner is doing, and potentially also with whom. The expected location of that [...]

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"New Presence" and identity

December 26, 2006

Phil Windley says that we’re going to need better identity structures before the New Presence can emerge.  He asks whether there is a business need which is strong enough to drive presence all by itself.  Ken Camp’s lengthy post The Present Known as Presence can be distilled down to the same question: is presence enough?   [...]

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