Presence and IntComm WG

[Peter Saint-Andre <>]

Candace Holman wrote:
> Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> Candace Holman wrote:
>>  
>>> This article is a pretty good one describing the need for unified,
>>> real-time communications in the real world, and focuses on
>>> dashboards. We haven't talked much about dashboards per se, but maybe
>>> we should if they are going to be the buzzword for presence.  I smell
>>> a killer app.
>>>     
>>
>> Do real people really want email, IM, voice, video, whiteboarding, file
>> sharing, and all the rest in one device / application? I don't see it.
>>
>>
>>   
> I don't see why not tie email, IM, and voice together to make it quicker
> to reach someone in their preferred channel.  The article is talking
> about how presence technology ties all the communication channels
> together and that presence is basically what unified communications was
> waiting for.  Nothing astonishing or new here, but the article is a good
> overview.

All I'm saying is that convergence onto one device or platform or app is
not necessarily the wave of the future, as many pundits and observers
seem to think it is. Sometimes -- often -- a special-purpose device is
what people want, in part because there are different modalities
involved. Or so it seems to me.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Software Foundation
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