Joost: an example of presence and context everywhere
You may have seen this screenshot of Joost in the Skype Journal banner art for the last few weeks. I love the juxtaposition of someone interviewing Beyonce in a video (a stream of a stored conversation), channel chat where I share my presence with others also watching this show, and Gtalk IM.
The channel chat context is very focused:
| Presence | = | Context: | "I'm watching Joost's interview with Beyonce" |
| + | Contact Vector: | "this Beyonce interview live chat room" | |
| + | Vector Connectedness: | "I'm online in this vector" | |
| + | Personal Availability: | "I wouldn't mind chatting now" |
Compared to Channel Chat, Gtalk only signals one of the four elements (vector connectedness). But Gtalk is still valuable in this context. It is great for going outside the circle of this Channel Chat and bringing your friends from other contexts into this conversation. Gtalk is also good for opening a voice channel so you can either report out to someone who isn't watching, or talk in sync about the same show.
Too many discussion of presence conflates these ideas. I'm sure we can decompose it further.
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Comments
wouldn't it be great to have a web based internet tv serice that also had social community functions and combined the best of web interaction with the best of tv, allowed full screen viewing, mini screen, rss feeds, live channel embeds, simple navigation, widgets, gadgets ... :)
Posted by: todd | April 3, 2007 08:43 AM