presence

Five ways mobile changes the world. Forever.

April 9, 2007

In the late 1990's, at the beginning of the broadband era, Strategic News Service chief Mark Anderson coined the term Always On, Real Time Access (AORTA) to describe always connected access to the internet. Mark's vision is just now becoming real, although perhaps not the way he thought it would. Although PC's may be always on and always connected, PC's are only [...]

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Three worthwhile pieces on "Presence"

April 5, 2007

The value of presence is one of those topics that gets lots of debate.  Three recent examples that I'd like to draw your attention to include: Gary Kim's Why "Presence" is Coming, which appears in IP business.  Gary runs through a dollars and sense analysis of why presence technologies are valuable to business, including providing [...]

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Is Presence a Stinky Red Fish?

March 27, 2007

People keep sending me interesting new blogs.  Take ThreeDimensionalPeople, for instance.  Authored by Stephen Johnston, a London based Nokia employee, it's got all kinds of nifty stuff to read. Presence: A Red Herring? is a rant on the idea of "just adding presence" to mobile phones.  Stephen points out a bunch of the problems associated [...]

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You might be annoying 60% of the population…

February 15, 2007

The Wall Street Journal has tapped into the controversy around phone calls and email messages during meetings.  Paul Kedrosky picked up on it with his comment that he thinks it’s OK to do it discretely, once in a while, but the sentiment from his commenters is running against.  Paul Sweeney points out that iotum’s Talk-Now [...]

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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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NextAlarm: The Broadband Alarm Co.

January 8, 2007

What could there possibly be “new” in the alarm business?  More than you might imagine, it turns out.   This morning NextAlarm made two announcements at CES.  First they launched VoIPAlarm, a new channel program designed to bring their broadband alarm services to alarm systems resellers, and then they announced V-Notify, the industry’s first automated alarm station — [...]

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Bloviating? Why I oughta!!!!

January 1, 2007

I’m very happy to hear that Ted agrees with me on personal identity management.  I do disagree, somewhat, with his view that identity must be wrapped in a centralized trust model.  It seems to me that there are a myriad of ways which you could assert identity based on relationships we already have: banks, churches, [...]

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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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Seguineau on The Attention Economy

November 15, 2006

Jean-Louis Seguineau has written a very interesting piece on presence, the attention economy, and social networks. He talks about non-verbal presence, and various forms of mediation.  Well worth a read. 

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Riffing on Ken Camp

November 6, 2006

My buddy Ken Camp snapped out a lengthy ramble on Voice 2.0, Presence and Availability on Sunday afternoon.  He hit the nail on the head, articulating the problem we wrestle with on a daily basis at iotum which is simply how to succinctly describe the vision for this stuff in terms that the average forward thinking [...]

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