A richer (and IM inspired) contact list for cellphones
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Jaiku is a new web site in town. Its tagline? A phone book that displays the real-time presence and location of your contacts, self-describes the company based in Finland.
Simple, yes but a fully valuable service. As said Jyri Engestroem and his team members: “We invented the term ‘rich presence’ to describe the many relevant things a phone knows about you. Rich presence on Jaiku includes an IM-style away line, your phone profile (ring volume, vibrate), location (country, city/region, neigborhood), Bluetooth devices around, upcoming calendar events, and the duration how long your phone has been idle.”
To start providing presence, users have to download a free client application for Nokia Series 60 Second Edition phones. The Jaiku software connects the dedicated server to complete the phone’s built-in contacts application with rich presence information.
Another project similar to Jaiku has already appear on our radar. Uni.me or social networking on cellphones with a special care for information aesthetic. Although it’s a graduate student project, such projects pioneer the upcoming wave of innovation on mobile phones. And closing the gap between desktop computers and cellphones.
Jul 18, 2006 | By Nuno
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This sentence really upsets me: ““We invented the term ‘rich presence’ to describe the many relevant things a phone knows about you”.
Rich-presence is a concept widely used in the field of presence-based services and applications. So they didn’t invent anything. :-)
I’m not speaking for them. But I think the term ‘rich presence’ is defined in the context of mobile phones. So far, not many applications are available in this category. And as their software enhance the basic contact list with such as availability and phone profile, I guess they figure out that ‘rich presence’ is a good self-descriptive term.
What do you think about this, Luca?
Since they offer the opportunity to see friends’ status on a web page, I think they are not referring only to the mobile world. I know you’re not speaking for them :-) I read their blog and I look forward to seing what they are planning to do in terms of “real” presence, that is updating in real time your presence status collecting information from different sources and usign them. Anyway, RICH PRESENCE is defined here
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-announce/current/msg02700.html