Presence: Better You Pull, For I ain’t Pushing it
To data almost all Presence serving system push a user’s Presence status to others. It is widely considered to be an efficient mechanism rather than individuals periodically polling the Presence status...
View ArticleOn a Golden Mean between Streams and Email
Background: During the recent Enterprise 2.0 Conference that took place in Boston, there was a panel called Microsharing: It is All About the Tools. It is Not About the Tools. It was moderated by...
View ArticleEnThinnai: A VRM Tool
Project VRM, a Berkman project has been endeavoring to bring forth a set of “tools to make markets work for both vendors and customers in ways that don’t require the former to “lock in” the latter was...
View ArticleFlexible, but Secure Access Control in Cloud Storage
There is a report that EU will be funding a research effort into Cloud Storage Technologies to the tune of $21.4 M. This project will be spearheaded by IBM’s research team in Haifa and it will take...
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Another Vector in post-PC Era
Smartphones and tablets have thus far dominated the discussion on the topic of post-PC devices. These devices are expensive, mobility focused and mainly facilitates users with consuming information....
View ArticleNew Milestone for EnThinnai: Running on a home server
Yesterday I posted about a new class of devices that I would call “micro servers”. These are inexpensive Ubuntu boxes that consume very little electricity that can be used to run different always on...
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On the Need for a Crowd in Social Software
As part of his “5 Myths of Social Software”, Jon Mell dispels a myth that one needs “lots of people for social tools to be a success.” He points to this famous diagram by Chris Rasmussen and his own...
View ArticleHandling Social Data in EnThinnai
In an article that was published in July 2010, Bruce Schneier categorizes Social Networking Data into six groups based on (broadly speaking) who generated the data, about whom, what data is that. He...
View ArticleNaDa and EnThinnai
A couple of days back, New York Times had a story on a recent research paper that was presented at Usenix Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing. The idea is to spin a cloud using servers placed...
View ArticleAn “App” Enabled by WebRTC
Some of us strongly believe that WebRTC will usher in a wide variety of innovative services, features and capabilities. At the same time, there are many skeptics dampen the (irrational?) exuberance. I...
View ArticleHow WebRTC could replace softclients
Last week during WebRTC Expo we saw enormous activity regarding WebRTC. Even though people list many use cases, most of the demos and announcements were related to Unified Communications (UC). They...
View ArticleOn Avoiding STUN and TURN While Deploying a WebRTC-based App
By now it is quite passe to claim that WebRTC will be a huge disruptive technology. Indeed, there has been a predictable backlash. In all these back and forth, very often we miss to note an important...
View Article“Phone number” for WebRTC
For many use cases the point of this post may not be applicable. But for the use case where your contact can use a browser to reach you to communicate with you, it is very relevant. So you decide...
View ArticleWho needs Federation in WebRTC
In a recent post Chris Kranky on the need “to move on” and the need for expediency in wrapping up the first iteration of the API. Personally I would have benefited if the first iteration had been a low...
View ArticleTu Me doesn’t have to just To Go
It has been reported that Telefonica will shut down Tu Me and redirect its resources in shoring up another service, To Go. People have theorized that compared to competing services from OTTs, To Me has...
View ArticleWhy Skype is No Different
Skype is celebrating its 10th Anniversary. On this occasion, I thought it will be interesting to revisit my early comments. They were published as a guest blog post in Gigaom on March 27, 2004. But due...
View ArticleEnThinnai RTC is now based on WebRTC
As early as 2008, EnThinnai supported the ability to conduct IM and voice chats. At that time a Java applet was dynamically downloaded to the browser. Then the browser maintained a two-way signaling...
View ArticleIntroducing ffonio.in
ffonio.in is a web application that people can use to have IM, voice and video chats with their friends and family. Users can run this app on their own devices such as their WiFi router, Raspberry Pi...
View ArticleHow do I get an OpenID?
It’s easy to get an OpenID; in fact, you probably already have one. If you have a Google account, you can use your profile id number as your login (which can be found in your profiles.google.com url)....
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WebRTC App is Like a Formal Living Room
Inasmuch the main utility of a formal living room is to entertain visiting guests, a WebRTC allows guests to initiate a communication session with the subscriber of the app that utilizes WebRTC. Many...
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