Comment Re:180 degrees? (Score 1) 577
This is going to be very interesting if Jabber takes over the IM world and coupled with Google's recent interest in WiFi:
Particularly with JEP-0080: User Geolocation
This JEP defines a protocol for communicating information about the current geographical location of a Jabber entity.
Basically, it allows you to broadcast your location via GPS coordinates and query the locations of your friends. In the not-so-distant future when cellphones/pagers have GPS capabilities built-in, you can enable your device to let your friends know where you are.
Possible scenario: You are about to arrive at the beach on 4th of July in San Diego and naturally there are so many people covering every square inch of the sand for as far as the eye can see! :-) How do you find your friends in that sea of faces? You and your friends turn on the GPS capability and this protocol starts to communicate with your friends devices (they must enable this on their devices too)! You bring up a map of your location and track a path to your friends!
Note the use of word "entity"- this means that it's not only applicable to people! All the buildings in a city could broadcast the presence of their Jabber "entity" to the world too. You could IM this entity to get the address, phone number, or even their GPS position to find your way to the building!
This could work wonders for nearby restaurants since you could IM with their Jabber "entity" that likely would be run by an IM bot. You could retrieve their menu on your device, order some food and have the business entity track your location so they have your table and food ready when you arrive.
First, the world must get rid of the proprietary IM protocols of AOL, Yahoo, and MSN to get out of their isolated IM networks and democratize the IM world with one IM standard. Imagine what the internet would be like if only AOL users could email other AOL users, Yahoo users with other Yahoo users only, and the same with MSN? So much of the usefulness of the internet would be lost. It's the same with IM standards- once it all comes together, we all would usher in a more useful internet that responds almost instantly to our nuances.
Particularly with JEP-0080: User Geolocation
This JEP defines a protocol for communicating information about the current geographical location of a Jabber entity.
Basically, it allows you to broadcast your location via GPS coordinates and query the locations of your friends. In the not-so-distant future when cellphones/pagers have GPS capabilities built-in, you can enable your device to let your friends know where you are.
Possible scenario: You are about to arrive at the beach on 4th of July in San Diego and naturally there are so many people covering every square inch of the sand for as far as the eye can see!
Note the use of word "entity"- this means that it's not only applicable to people! All the buildings in a city could broadcast the presence of their Jabber "entity" to the world too. You could IM this entity to get the address, phone number, or even their GPS position to find your way to the building!
This could work wonders for nearby restaurants since you could IM with their Jabber "entity" that likely would be run by an IM bot. You could retrieve their menu on your device, order some food and have the business entity track your location so they have your table and food ready when you arrive.
First, the world must get rid of the proprietary IM protocols of AOL, Yahoo, and MSN to get out of their isolated IM networks and democratize the IM world with one IM standard. Imagine what the internet would be like if only AOL users could email other AOL users, Yahoo users with other Yahoo users only, and the same with MSN? So much of the usefulness of the internet would be lost. It's the same with IM standards- once it all comes together, we all would usher in a more useful internet that responds almost instantly to our nuances.
