iotum Talk-Now for Blackberry is a service that lets you share your availability to talk with others. It's designed to eliminate "telephone tag", by letting people actually view the availability of the people they need to speak with.
Iotum Talk-Now can:
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Show at a glance the availability of your preferred contacts.
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Notify you when a contact becomes available to talk.
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Share your person-to-person availability to let people know the best time to reach you. This availability will be shared when a user adds you to his Talk-Now list or when you notify a contact to return your call.
Your availability to take a call from a specific contact is defined by iotum based on:
- What you are doing (calendar, presence on BlackBerry)
- Your preferences: set up when you are available or not for a call; apply different priorities and preferences to different contacts or groups of contacts.
- Who is requesting the information.
Iotum is currently running the service as a limited technology preview. Amongst other things that means it's likely to have a few bugs, and it's a little heavy on data usage (expect 10M or more per month), which we are working to correct. But it works, and doesn't seem to be buggy.
Iotum's CEO emailed me this afternoon to tell me they are looking for up to 500 Blackberry users to play with what Iotum says "is the next revolutionary idea in mobile presence. To get your Talk-Now account, visit www.iotum.com/blackberry.
1. the service looks interesting but the privacy policy is really sketchy - even if they don't mean it to be so, I don't plan to give my blackberry info to someone who then has every right to sell it everywhere.
So, Iotum, edit that policy and I'll jump in. :)
Posted at 12:11AM on Jan 5th 2007 by Scott