1. presence

2. peter saint-andre

3. jabber

4. http://stpeter.im/

6. presence

7. dial tone for internet communication

8. context...

9. message + reply, London <> Calcutta

10. 1800: 2 years (sailing ship)

11. 1914: 1 month (steamship)

12. 1950: 1 week (airmail)

13. 1980: 2 days (overnight mail)

14. 1993: 10 minutes (email)

15. 1999: 1 second (instant messaging)

16. half-life of information is shrinking

17. need to build the real-time internet

18. deliver information when it’s needed

19. know when people, devices, apps are online

20. presence

21. “the new dial tone”

22. boring!

23. a catalyst for interaction

24. also need identity + capabilities

25. PSTN “presence” is minimal

26. dial tone indicates system availability

27. identity is only a number

28. capabilities are stable and minimal

29. on IP networks, more complexity

30. presence is individual (person/device)

31. presence is manifold (multiple devices)

32. presence is mutual (subscriptions)

33. identity is more complete (vCard++)

34. capabilities are dynamic and multifaceted

35. not just person to person

36. person to application

37. application to application

38. what can we do with presence?

39. one-to-one IM

40. groupchat (à la IRC)

41. just teen chat, right?

42. wrong!

43. trading desks (investment banks)

44. incident rooms (CapWIN)

45. situation rooms (U.S. Marines)

46. data syndication

47. real-time RSS (just-in-time updates)

48. microblogging (Twitter, Jaiku)

49. real-time financial modelling

50. intelligent workflow processing

51. energy trading (NetEnergy)

52. sales / logistics (Reynolds & Reynolds)

53. network management (Oracom)

54. wireless access points (Sputnik)

55. configure linksys routers (VoIP provider)

56. info sync (TiVo)

57. real-time virtual collaboration

58. SVG whiteboarding (Inkboard, etc.)

59. shared document editing (SubEthaEdit)

60. collaborative data objects (MITRE)

61. presence-enabled telephony

62. PTT/PTV triggered by presence

63. Google Talk

64. Asterisk, FreeSWITCH, etc.

65. federate PBXs

66. look ma, no telco!

67. presence in distressed environments

68. serverless mode (zeroconf)

69. link-local comms (Bonjour)

70. unwired schools (OLPC)

71. mesh / IP “bubbles” (military convoys)

72. extended presence

73. geolocation

74. vehicle tracking (Real Fleet, trakm8)

75. first responder systems (CapWIN)

76. mobile marketing services

77. many more examples

78. principles...

79. presence will be ubiquitous

80. real-time trumps store-and-forward

81. voice chat trumps voice mail

82. IM trumps email

83. real-time builds stickiness

84. real-time improves time-to-market

85. real-time builds competitive advantage

86. all with open standards (xmpp/sip/rtp/etc.)

87. radical innovation at the edges

88. think world wide web, not telco

89. sounds great, huh?

90. there be dragons!

91. technical challenges...

92. scalability (a million points of presence?!)

93. sharing presence across domains

94. privacy & security

95. societal challenges...

96. who owns presence data?

97. who can access presence?

98. personal challenges...

99. always-on availability is no fun

100. presence overload

101. managing multiple devices

102. technical solutions...

103. automation (e.g., calendars)

104. smarter devices

105. social solutions...

106. presence etiquette?

107. personal solutions...

108. continuous partial attention

109. multiple presence IDs

110. knowing when to go invisible

111. understanding costs and benefits

112. give presence, get connected

113. presence-enabled connected world

114. everything is going real-time

115. half-life of information is shrinking

116. we’re building the real-time internet

117. whether we know it or not

118. whether we like it or not

119. the best way to predict the future...

120. is to invent it

121. we’re inventing it together

122. join the conversation

123. An eComm 2008 presentation – http://eCommMedia.com for more