Comments on Headworx: Presence: Mobile Killer App

Surely the most important issue is to enable integ...

2006-11-26T22:00:00.000+01:00

Surely the most important issue is to enable integration with 3rd party presence providers. I would love my Vodafone presence status to follow my Google Talk presence status (as long as I am looged into the Google service).

Actually, the operator-side and the client-side s...

2006-11-20T00:47:00.000+01:00

Actually, the operator-side and the client-side solutions can coexist and complement one another. This way there can be a working presence system on low-end phones (through USSD codes) and sophisticated native application installed on the high-end devices. Such application can communicate with the operator through USSD codes (hard but doable on Symbian) and integrate presence status with the Contacts, Inbox, Log etc. Operators would love such solution even more, because it would work on all their devices and would probably boost sales of the more expensive ones. The important issue IMHO is to enable presence information to cross the operators boundaries. This can be done through some central presence server. What do you think?

Yes, you are right. But as a matter of fact our sy...

2006-11-13T21:36:00.000+01:00

Yes, you are right. But as a matter of fact our system lets you do that. There is a special function you can query over USSD channel. So press a button and your phone displays all your buddies and their respective statuses. And there is an option to query individual people as well.
We are thinking the other way around as well. You can set a special status like "call me" or "i feel lonely" or "i miss you" to attract callers. This is potentially big for the operators, as they get yet another application that drives traffic (they love it).

The advantage of implementing presence service on...

2006-11-12T23:31:00.000+01:00

The advantage of implementing presence service on the mobile side is that you can actually see the status of the people you want to call even before you press the green button. So if you see "I'm on vacation", "GMT -8", "On the boring meeting" statuses you know that it's pointless to call someone and you can save some precious time.
I generally agree that the presence service is probably the mobile service of 2007, but I am not sure which implementation will be most successful.
Cheers

Yes and no. The jaiku solition is a client side so...

2006-11-08T09:41:00.000+01:00

Yes and no. The jaiku solition is a client side solution. My idea (and the products we develop at Wind) is to make the telephone network aware of your presence status. This way many interesting scenarios can happen. For example when you are at your computer, you can have the incoming calls routed to your voip softphone (cheaper and better quality). And when you set a busy status in the Google Talk messenger, people calling your mobile will hear "Hi, this is Roger, I am busy at the moment and would prefer to talk to you later. But if your call is important please stay on the line." while your phone is ringing. And you have the freedom to accept or reject that call.

Have you seen Jaiku: http://jaiku.com/ ? It seems ...

2006-11-08T00:51:00.000+01:00

Have you seen Jaiku: http://jaiku.com/ ? It seems that they are very close to the solution...