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Cisco today announced the acquisition of Jabber.
A smart move, Cisco is a very good home for Jabber (why the heck they passed on this years ago still fails me). Jabber/XMPP should become further entrenched in a leadership position in real-time communications infrastructure. Personally, I’m intrigued with XMPP providing a better foundation for the scale-challenged world of Twitter and the like.
Note to Jabber developers in Denver, we’re hiring, and here’s what life is like here ;)
Adding on to my recent post about Twitter, check out the NY Times excellent article which puts Twitter into the context of the social media landscape, and relative to Facebook in particular. When you get a chance, do take a full read - it’s one of the best pieces I’ve seen for a layman understanding the consumer shift towards a world of “ambient awareness”.
In my Twitter post, I intentionally left out two things which the NYT pulls together well: One, the context of Twitter versus Facebook (who really pioneered the concept, and continues to consider the status update central to their evolution). Two, it explains the side of Twitter which is “sideline” to my current usage - the emerging world increasingly referred to as “lifestreaming”. Read Write Web did a great primer on Lifestreaming a few months back, also worthwhile reading if you’re interested.
Back in April, 2007, I first blogged about the early emergence of Twitter. It’s since become a fundamental “must have” tool to the media and silicon valley crowd. Not using Twitter is akin to carrying a Motorola Razr phone at Web 2.0!
Following my innate tendency to pick up shiny new objects, I joined Twitter a few months ago. I was a reluctant laggard by silicon valley standards - the advertised premise of telling everyone “what are you doing?” didn’t sit well with me. Broadcasting to the world where I stop for a drink, or when I’m waiting for a plane seemed to be on the time-wasting side of social media, not to mention feeling a tad narcissistic.
And now I’m hooked.
Google’s just announced acquisition of Grand Central paints another point on a line with an increasingly clear path. Google is building the infrastructure for a suite of communication services that erase the lines between modalities and communications delivery channels.
For the unfamiliar, Grand Central is an innovative voip-based technology company (an NBC video roll for a simple overview, and their Demo 2006 video gives a more detailed product concept orientation).The GrandCentral notion of a “life-long, multi-modal mailbox” will presumably be integrated with GoogleTalk and Gmail. This will become a compelling hook to your personal communications life.
What might this imply to the progression of voice services? advertising services? (more…)
Ok, so this one is tongue in cheek, and it’s probably enough twitter chatter. But, hey…
From SearchEngineLand…
Many search marketers know Nick Wilson, especially for his role in having founded Threadwatch. In case you haven’t been keeping up, Nick and his wife Ivana are having baby. Like now, right now. Nick’s twittering it live here. Barry and I are pretty sure this will be the first birth to ever hit Twitter.
For the unfamiliar, no worries, it’s primarily a text media, not video.
All to say, the web is brimming full of conversation, and find the ways to align local conversations with well intentioned and designed local shopping propositions is really important stuff to figure out over the coming years. We all know events like new babies are golden local marketing events, and people are talking.
The NY Times just wrote about a product I’ve begun watching, and provides a good overview of the product and concept. Twitter catapulted to stardom at the recent SXSW, triggering a torrent of usage growth from legions of teenagers, but - more interestingly - a rash of connected web 2.0 tools and sites.
from the twitter home page, twitter is…“A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM or right here on the web!”
Is your first reaction a resounding “huh?” Understandable. (more…)
The growing pace of consumer participation on the Internet finally creates a backdrop from which you can see the concept of an “active local marketplace” evolve. Think Craigslist meets the live web, bolstered by a deep layer of search and interaction management intelligence.
Many years ago, back in the formative days of Jabber, we coined the phrase “conversational commerce” to represent the way active messaging could enhance the progression of local commerce. Small businesses are not about to wake up and suddenly publish their inventories (sorry, Intuit), calendars and work examples online.
Providing ways to qualify and organize your shopping choices, and then elegantly integrate conversations with local businesses felt like the foundation that was missing. Thus the term, conversational commerce.