DISQUS

I used Vidoop and Verisign PIP. I don't want to use GMail b/c they want to access my GMail contacts list, which I consider to be intrusuve.

OK, I did all that. So I have associated an OpenID with my Facbook account. But how do I use that to sign into FB? I get only FB login option. Did you indeed signin with your OpenID?

pubsubhubbub? (http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/)

I think the same effect can be realized by setting the Do not disturb option. This way you can temporarily override this and receive calls on your other phones.

Netbooks will also innovate com device market. VZW recently introduced a feature rich VoIP device for $200 with 2 year contract. They will educate the market on the benefits of such devices. Then the market wil realize that Netbooks can be used to realize all those features and without the contract.

Then the enterprise market will also dispense with $300 VoIP deskphones and use netbooks instead, which can double as travel PC for office workers.

I too am expecting big things with Netbooks in delivering on the promises of "intelligence at the end".

Assuming that everyone can have their own website, we explored how communications space would look like and came up with an application that can be explored at www.enthinnai.com. Basically you can be your own service provider and there are no onerous requirements on your friends - just that they need an OpenID for authentication.

My reaction as I was watching the interwiew: http://twitter.com/aswath/statuses/797194233

It is evident that you have to know the man, his theological underpinnings to understand his :chicken to roost" sermon. It is very likely that his congregation fully understands that. But Obama failed or at least decided to fail for tactical reasons in explaining this to us.

Luca, I don't mean to dismiss your point. But the real difficulty of witter and the problem in scalability is that my tweets are shared with only the people that follow me, instead of everyone. When a follower of mine comes online, all messages shared with the people that person following and sorting in chronological order so on. Does WP platform do all that? I couldn't test it out on my own because I didn't receive confirmation email for some time.

I do not have a dog in this fight, but it is clear you do and many times you are betraying your impartial observations. When it was suspected that superdelegates may prefer HRC, BHO camp argued that they should vote along the lines of open primary. But then folks like Richardson argued otherwise.

Regarding your third point, do you think Ted Kennedy has self-respect after 1980? Is he an outsider?

Of course HRC and her supporters do this sort of thing all the time as do politicians of any caliber. But BHO is supposed to be different and more importantly his supporters are looking for different ways of doing things. So the clarion call for change is losing its voice so soon?

Tshai, we are in agreement. The problem was with my use of "you can assign". This gives the impression that it is done by a human being. But in reality it would be one or more agents, both humans and software.

Eric:



I think with the scheme Kfir is suggesting for maintaining different presence information to different people you can maintain different presence information for different clients under a single system. For example, if you use EnThinnai, you can group your clients into four groups and assign specific "Availability status" for each group.



If one uses OpenID to authenticate originator of a message/session, then I feel we can control SPAM/SPIT very effectively.

I thought that FB had previously announced that they are developing the capability to group friends and provide different persona to different groups.

CTRL+mouse click on a name of a group or friend will give you a popup window and one of the choices is Stealth settings.

Oh I realize now my mistake. You are asking for more detailed status setting rather than just "Appear offline". Sorry about that. In Y! you can only set a custom status globally. For what you want to do, you can try EnThinnai. :-)

Yahoo! and MSN IMs allow for setting different status messages for different groups or buddies. Are you looking for something more/different. Are you looking for an ability to set the values programatically? I guess I am missing what is it that you are looking.

Please consider www.enthinnai.com for Niche and Miscellaneous social networks. We feel it is a novel approach to realize the services of social networks in a distributed manner.

A better approach may be for individuals/enterprises to run their own SNs, but federate with other similar SNs to which their friends belong. This way there s no need to worry about who owns the content, how do I port from one SN to another and other points brought up in this discussion. This is the equivalent of "intelligence at the end", a popular refrain in the VoIP word. At least we believe in this model and we are working to realize this vision.

By the way, the comment tracking system used here is another illustration of this point. Disqus issues their own identity to track my comments in various sites. But if we use a user-centric identity like OpenID, then it would have been much simpler and I will be the owner of my comments; nobody has to grant it back in the T&C.

Facebook wants to be an OS of something or other. If so, there is a precedence. If I write a Windows/Mac application, who owns it? Most certainly I do. The defense rests.

I thought Jajah charges by the minute for each call (except for the trial 5 minutes). I agree my proposal will not make sense if they are planning to support the service through advertising.

Thinking blogger. Many potential posts have been discarded because they have been taken over by events as I am still thinking about the topic.