Comments on: Unifying presence on the desktop http://saunderslog.com/2006/12/18/unifiying-presence-on-the-desktop/ A daily round table on the tech industry with experts and callers from all over the globe. Join us as we pick apart the news and get to the meat of what\'s happening out there. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:48:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mark Scrimshire http://saunderslog.com/2006/12/18/unifiying-presence-on-the-desktop/#comment-83231 Mark Scrimshire Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:30:13 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2006/12/18/unifiying-presence-on-the-desktop/#comment-83231 Sorry to state the obvious - but what is the point of aggregating presence on the desktop. The desktop is a location at which we spend less and less time. Shouldn't we be aggregating presence in the "cloud" and providing multiple access routes to our presence manager. We then build contextual presence identification abilities in to the cloud. ie. having carriers update presence automatically when we are on a phone call. Sorry to state the obvious - but what is the point of aggregating presence on the desktop. The desktop is a location at which we spend less and less time.

Shouldn’t we be aggregating presence in the “cloud” and providing multiple access routes to our presence manager. We then build contextual presence identification abilities in to the cloud. ie. having carriers update presence automatically when we are on a phone call.

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