IM as transport mechanism
While I’m sitting here waiting for my flight to Dehli I thought I’d recollect on some ideas for using IM as a transport mechanism as infrastrucure.
You can move all sorts of stuff over IM - besides chat traffic. Emotions, links, media, status, presence, locations, events, micro-content - its all good.
Now that we’re working with AOL on their new AIM APIs - I’m looking forward to creating some coolio experiences utilizing sucvh a transport.
Jabber has tried to position itself as a transport mechanism - but to not much success. Microsoft also tried to capture a ‘transport’ solution business - a few years back. My friend Royal Farros sold a company to Microsoft - which sent RSS over MSN Messenger.
There’s all sorts of coolio things to be done.
Avanti Populo!
It really looks like AIM can achieve some things that no one has done before. But first we need AIM Auth.
Hi Marc, have you considered how valuable IM as a transport mechanism is on a mobile phone? Not having to open browsers, scroll through webpages. Remember the phone is best suited for communication. It would be great that from the “new idle” screen you have direct access to the world.
To have a succeful mechanism I believe two things are needed aswell: 1. AI, 2. context/profile information. These will make it intuitive enough to work smoothly. Let’s discuss on friday
Raimo
Hi Marc, have you considered how valuable IM as a transport mechanism is on a mobile phone? Not having to open browsers, scroll through webpages. Remember the phone is best suited for communication. It would be great that from the “new idle” screen you have direct access to the world.
To have a succeful mechanism I believe two things are needed aswell: 1. AI, 2. context/profile information. These will make it intuitive enough to work smoothly. Let’s discuss on friday
Raimo
Hi Marc, have you considered how valuable IM as a transport mechanism is on a mobile phone? Not having to open browsers, scroll through webpages. Remember the phone is best suited for communication. It would be great that from the “new idle” screen you have direct access to the world.
To have a succeful mechanism I believe two things are needed aswell: 1. AI, 2. context/profile information. These will make it intuitive enough to work smoothly. Let’s discuss on friday
Raimo