Mike Gotta’s post on social presence is a must-read for all presence aficionados. He builds a well-articulated case for how presence needs to evolve and gain continuity to align with ongoing social networking activities rather than to merely support various communications transactions. He writes:

We need to think of presence more along the lines of a lifestream or activity stream where a variety of information is published into the stream and people can subscribe to the entire stream or to different types of information placed into the stream.

This new presence construct generates an essentially continuous stream of information of what someone is doing, where they are, etc. I believe that in this new model, the presence publisher, in addition to the subscriber, requires granular control over who can see what elements of their presence stream. I also see a future where presence gains more use cases where it is applied to things, in addition to people.

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