That said, might it not be more of a pain to set all the parameters than to just look at caller ID? Think the jury is still out on this one.

I don’t believe this is a major threat, although I expect that in the future Jaiku users will have more and more private accounts; this allows them to share their rich presence only with their contacts. The key reason for this, however, is not security, but the need to share more intimate things and to have more personal interaction.

If somebody wanted to stalk a person that would be quite easy to by just following her blog, Flickr account, Plazes page, MySpace page, etc Aggregation does not provide much added value for such a person. In addition, a person can quite easily fake her Jaiku presence; according to our user studies, this is quite an important feature :-)

I think that the most important thing is that the users of online services realize which actions are public and which are not, so that no accidental data exposure happen. Although we believe that the old-fashioned ways are still much more easier and efficient for burglars, we are constantly thinking about the ways to improve privacy and identity protection; the next major release will include some new features in this area.

don’t you think that Jaiku might be a little bit too “holistic”?

Jaiku’s website gives up to the minute news about where people are and what they are doing. Isn’t this a nice service to burglars who want to pay a visit to their home while they are “On my way to work…” or “off to Thailand for two weeks”.

Nice stalker service! :)

It reminds me of the people who accidentally published their Google calendars with most intimate timetables. This was also a nice burglar service, described in a blog post “Death by Google Calendar: How I Identified you to rob you”.

Jaiku seems to take this service to new spheres by bringing up to the minutes news - and not only weeks old calendars.

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We are using rich presence information to bring the phone book alive. Instead of just showing whether a contact is available or not, it provides the user with “social peripheral vision”: she has a feeling of being closer to her family and friends and is more likely to react to their activities, for example by calling them or sending them a message. I totally agree with Alec that this is a winning equation, but then again, I might be slightly biased :-)

Best, Petteri from Jaiku.

For example, when entertaintment industry joined hands with telecom, a whole new industry is created.
Similarly innovation and ideas should be focus on how to bring yet another industry in circumference of Telecom domain, may be Health or may be finance…

Good Luck Alec

I agree companies gain from the ability to efficiently reach their employees, but we have that capability now with single number reach, unified messaging and IM. So where is the business value?

iotum’s presence software seems to evidence that we can save us from the technology driven information and availability overload only by even more technology.

The habits are changing. People expect more and more availability and don’t respect times for privacy. Three days ago a company boss, that I had inverviewed before, called me at 10 PM when I was in bed already.

Higher ranking Blackberry users don’t need iotum. They have a secretary to filter their calls.

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I write about using presence on my blog here:
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