eComm2008 blog: Peter Saint-Andre on Presence
Peter Saint-Andre is Executive Director of the XMPP Standards Foundation. XMPP (formerly known as Jabber) is today's leading instant messaging protocol. As Skype users know well, IM is nothing without simple presence signaling. Lee and Peter talked about emerging presence.
Lee Dryburgh, host of the March Emerging Communications conference (co-sponsored by Skype Journal), interviewed Peter Saint-Andre (mp3, 48 MB, 50:00).
Some highlights:
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Presence is real-time digital identity
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Presence shares short lived attributes of "me-now".
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TBD: how to route presence to the right people
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TBD: how that shared presence prompts conversations and interactions
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Needs work: presence resolution and granularity
Lee:
"We are heading into an era of super connectedness between people, people and machines, and across the offline and online worlds. Evolved presence and lifestreams will be very much the plumbing to build that highly-woven fabric."
Comments
If it is true, as you say, that "IM is nothing without simple presence signaling", then Skype is indeed nothing, because their "presence signaling" has been hopelessly broken for a very, very long time.
Posted by: J.A. Watson | January 30, 2008 11:33 PM