ZDNet: Talk-Now shows availability based upon relationship
Source: saunderslog.com
ZDNet’s Matt Miller (the Mobile Gadgeteer) has posted a short piece on iotum Talk-Now for Blackberry. He nails the story when he says:
The application doesn’t simply broadcast the same availability to everyone, but uses a Relevance Engine to determine what status is shown to your contact based upon relationships you have established and what you are actually doing.
Exactly!
When we built Talk-Now, we simply repurposed the information in the iotum Relevance Engine to reflect availability and willingness to converse, as opposed to using that information to filter calls. Talk-Now is a New Presence application.
