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Status never caught on with IM -- point of fact -- in my realm of contacts. Mostly, I see iTunes tracks being played as the status but a select few might be "Away" but this is likely an automation by default at a 10-15 interval when the IM client has not been in focus on a desktop.
I am finding that many status services are, as the saying goes, a status symbol.
The majority of status prompts are our status symbols, methods to passively communicate and share information about ourselves and our lives. We've always had this ability to present ourselves offline, and I'm curious what will happen as the online world continues to evolve.
Perhaps there is a business opportunity in helping people show off, in helping them show off how they see themselves. Or is that simply Facebook?
So, there -is- a market that doesn't know it exists and there is a business opp for when people demand some method for teaming and presence -- it's just hard to lay out the scenario where everyone needs it. More and more I am seeing Unified Communication being pushed into places it does not and should not fit.
For example, none of this is remotely useful or needed with a workforce that is tethered to a desktop in a call center or highly sedentary environment. Contrast this with distributed sales teams or multi-timezone project teams and you can see it isn't something you can ignore as you break up the proximity of a team but it also isn't a fit for everyone.
I see a lot of unified communication applications that simply require too much from the user, too many routing, device, time and caller scenarios requiring too many pre-selected decisions. The potential is in passive information sharing instead of active, interruptive collaboration.
(btw, I wasn't even thinking of unified communications when I wrote this post: we've gone down a "status in the literal sense" train of thought, interesting...)
new cultural norms? perhaps we are relying on our intuition even more than in "real" life .. my sense of taylor davidson is derived from very few signals, yet feels very real ...
you always ask such good questions, and in such a way that my usual instant reply mode just won't work, i need to think out my responses .. and then time goes by ...
ok, enjoy
gregory
similar to how I'm always smarter after a couple drinks? :)
Each twitter message is a status update of a sort; once Twitter is "mainstream", or once Facebook opens up the status message, and status is a conversationthen our usage will change. Just watch.
lately I've been thinking I could find an endless ideas for posts just by going back to old posts and answering questions that I've asked...
thankfully you see the "taylor davidson" signals out of all the noise :)
we scrape a lot of meaning from just a few words, and an avatar, and it is surprising how accurate much of it is ...
intuition is just the convenient english word to use when referring to the sukshma sharira, the sanskrit word for the subtle body ...
technology is just the out-picturing of what awareness can already do ...
and, as to your blog posts, you could just loop a few, and get completely different comments, your stuff is usually that deep, and brings out different answers at different times ...
enjoy