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Article on IM presence from ZDNetUK

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Sadly the author hasn't really done much research for their article The future of presence or interpreted it wrong.
there's no true presence-based email program available to consumers and small businesses. I've actually been berating email software vendors for a while for not creating an easy-to-use option that lets users see if the person who just sent them email is still around to receive a reply or a phone call or an IM.

I know for a fact Outlook Express has had MSN awareness for at least 3 years, both consumer products. Notes had it's first IM awareness in 5.02b, what was that 1998? If I had read this article 3 years ago, I would have thought fair enough, right now companies are already shipping pretty much everything he refers to as the "future".

Posted by Carl Tyler On 03/04/2005 | | del.icio.us  Technorati  Digg This 

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Gravatar Image1 - Seeing as the IM screencap snippet is Yahoo! Messenger in the article, the author is likely implying that there is no awareness in the consumer-grade, web-based mail arena.

Posted by Tim Latta At 11:03:37 AM On 03/07/2005 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image2 - Hotmail has IM awareness as does Yahoo mail.

Posted by Carl At 11:26:24 AM On 03/07/2005 | - Website - |


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