The best kind of real-time presence is time spent with friends, family and loved ones. During this special time of year, don’t forget to take time to logout, turn off your IM and real-time alerts, pause your blogging, twittering and social networking and spend some real time with the people that matter most to you.
After I wrapped-up my Fall VON panel discussion with Avaya, BT, and HP I switched gears to do an interview with VON TV. The five minute video shares some of my thoughts on the value of presence, why protocols don’t matter, and how Jabber simplifies adding presence to applications and services. Check out my early morning mug in Jabber’s “TV” debut.
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) recently announced that Jabber XCP has been selected to provide instant messaging, low-bandwidth text chat, and persistent multi-user chat for personnel across the U.S. Department of Defense. Jabber XCP will be provided as part of the contract for Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) awarded to Carahsoft Technology Corp., working in partnership with Adobe Systems, Inc. Read the Jabber, Inc. press release for more details.
One of the coolest companies using the Jabber XCP platform is Me.dium, which is innovatively presence-enabling the Web. They recently announced raising $15 million in a second round of funding. I am still chuckling at how their CEO, Kimbal Musk blogged about this achievement.
Congratulations and thanks for injecting some humor into the world of presence!
If you haven’t visited Jabber, Inc.’s Website recently, stop by and check out our new look and content.
Jabber XCP has evolved into a highly scalable, multi-protocol platform for presence and real-time messaging. Enterprise instant messaging is but one of many applications of our platform. The revised Website now reflects the true breadth and depth of our business, which remains firmly founded on presence.
We’re always interested in featuring new uses of our platform. If you would like your application featured on our Website, please let me know.
It’s still king says Dow Jones’ Paul Vigna in a recent WSJ OpEd piece (subscription req.)
We had a somewhat different perspective in SIP Magazine last year under the header Context is King.
We don’t so much disagree as believe that the dominant position lies in the software that separates people from the content they want.
Case in point, iTunes sales are rising even as the content they’re selling has remained somewhat static.
On perhaps a parallel tangent, Om isn’t far off in suggesting that IM is the “last desktop app standing.” But I’d argue its more than that, as instant messaging IS the desktop. Or more accurately, the interface through which we manage our presence defines our desktop and at this point it is IM, and (hypothesizing here) the company you entrust to help you manage your presence owns the most consumer trust (and attention).
Of interest to eggheads in recent news is the fact that both Google and Joost use XMPP. I would expect YouTube to integrate a chat function at some point. Joost apparently has one such that you can open a chat and perhaps a group chat around a specific video. Pretty cool community building tool.
But beyond IM and chat, I think Google and Joost recognize that there’s tremendous power in presence-enabling their IPTV platforms. The more of a person’s presence IPTV platforms can consume the more targeted (and lucrative) their advertising slots become.
Filament(n) [http://www.answers.com/filament]: Thin thread of carbon or tungsten which produces heat or light with the passage of current.
The universal symbol for the Jabber protocol is a light bulb. Jabber.org and Jabber, Inc. use stylized versions of a light bulb as logos and as icons to represent presence. We’ve named this blog “Filaments” because we will be discussing topics at the core of presence.
This is the first entry of an open conversation about any and all of the many strands of individual and system presence. Check this space regularly for discussions on how presence is and can be embedded within applications, devices, and systems as thin strands of information that together weave a richer and more real-time experience.
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