A Mobile Presence
Giga OM and Iotum take a look at “presence,” one of the supposed killer apps in the next generation of mobile technologies.
Presence will drive a fundamental change in the way that communications networks are used today. Today, callers have no way of knowing whether the party being called is available, or busy, or would consider the call an intrusion. With presence, the availability of a called party is known by the calling party before making the call.
Although away messages on online messaging services have been popular for years, it will be interesting to see if the trend continues with mobile social platforms. Twitter has begun to show that an interconnected network of social status updates via IM/cell/web can be popular, and these updates are similarly popular on facebook and other social networks. While the presence applications will probably have an “off-button,” will social pressures drive us to continually update our status?
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