Emote is a concept of sharing emotions, built over microblogging with full functionality of a social-networking site and a beautiful scrolling TIMELINE ( http://www.emote.in/misc/images/timeline.JPG )

emote is a microblogging service; which is a platform to –
1. broadcast and share your emotions with your family, friends and with the entire world.
2. Make yourself heard, comment on news, stories and current affair.
3. Share your experiences, memories and events with your friends and family.
4. Connect with different people with similar emotional attributes as yours.
(ex: if atrocities on animals make you sad, connect with others who share the same feeling)
5. Jot-down your experiences. You usually have so many things to say – a constant stream of thoughts, comments and observations running through your head continuously.

6. A wonderful TIMELINE that arranges your messages in a chronological order date by date.
(A prominent micro-blog reviewer thinks so!)
http://emote.in/notice/2595

Sometimes, the important connections we make are the ones we make with ourselves.

I agree with Jeffrey’s and Lewis’s comments about activity streaming too. Activity streaming is micro-blogging with contextual and process oriented focus. This was the most valuable use I found at IBM for using their internal beta “BlueTwit” micro-blogging system. I managed project teams during intensive short term content development sprints. We used BlueTwit with our own project hash tag as a way to keep all team members on the same frequency. As a PM, I saw this as a great new tool for focusing team activity, coordination, and for measuring the activity pulse of the project team.

From an application infrastructure point of view there is a fine line between between micro-blogging inside focused activity streams that are part of a wide open broadcast environment like twitter, and the provisioning of dedicated persistent chat rooms. The latter has been an option available or some time now from leading instant messaging platform vendors. These dedicated chat rooms can persist, (they don’t go away once every leaves for the day) and are only visible to those invited to the chat. They can be just as effective for group activity streaming as Twitter, plus access controls and confidentiality are built in. But those last attributes makes them very un-twitter like. And isn’t closed by default instead of open by default the antithesis of E2.0?

If I were managing product development for one of the big instant messaging vendors, here is the feature addition I would be pushing for in the next major release: broadcast, subscription based IM channels. IOWs, add enterprise “twitter” to the platform. From an end user’s point of view this means:

> I have one additional member in my chat client contact list: “MyBroadcast”
> When I send an “IM” to that recipient I’m actually broadcasting it to anyone that subscribes to my channel within the IM enterprise.
> I have an extra grouping with my chat client UI that expands to show everyone in the IM enterprise to which I subscribe (ie. “follow”).
> The UI presents a tabbed interface. One tab shows the follow stream for everyone. Other tabs may appear as needed to follow activity in one or more persistent chat rooms that I’m a part of (ie. activity stream rooms). I guess you could expand all the tabs out ala Tweetdeck to show all streams in one window too.
> When I startup a traditional p2p chat this also appears as a new tab…

In other words, full twitter like functionality embedded into existing enterprise IM platform. It seems to me that the unique strengths of enterprise IM servers (ie. multi-plexed, switched point-to-point and point-to-many content streaming) makes them prime candidates for addition of micro-blogging functionality ala twitter.

Bolt this onto your existing investment in hosting enterprise IM and the oh-so-hot-and-trendy new social functionality that Twitter/Yammer/Identi.ca, etc… provides is now available in your enterprise – without the incremental increase in infrastructure complexity that bringing in a new app vendor and a new hosting platform would cause. The user doesn’t have to startup two desktop client apps to micro-blog and IM. It’s automatically integrated with the enterprise directory. It appears within a client app UI that is already familiar to your end users. Etc…

Jeffrey – so how close is this activity streaming concept to your interpretation of what a “wave” is, ala google?

a) Getting ‘news breaks’ on important events and experts’ takes on such events.
b) Generate new focused relationship that match enterprise personnel busines targets
c) Save selected streams as a data layer of prospects’ throughts, desires and wants.

Crucial for relationship nurturing on the road to more business closed.

There is no silver bullet and cultural factor hinder openness more than anything. Great you have twitter, blogging, facebook, profile creation, document sharing to achieve collaboration and open dialouges publicly if your culture is one of heriarchary, controlled messaging, and frankly fear of disagreeing with upper levels of the enterprise none of this stuff goes through any part of the curve.

I tend to focus more on the aspects of the strategy of engagement all these new tools provide to bring all the aspects of engagement in the B2C, B2B and P2P closer together to really produce innovative solutions.

Good explanation of the curve and trough! Thank you

There’s really no reason why work can’t be “fun and fascinating” behind the firewall. That includes all forms of socialworking: publishing, commenting, connecting, collaborating, co-creating, recommending, and so on.