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.....and said they were the next Friendster, I laughed," says Mike Jones of Userplane. Now he's just smiling, as cofounder/ceo of the company that powers instant messaging and chat for Friendster, MySpace and hundreds of dating sites.

More interesting is the platform underneath: While other vendors talk about identity management and worry about the issues of privacy and portability and federation, Userplane manages about 1.5 million user IDs that it now wants to federate (at their option, with real-time presence management) *across* its partner sites. That is, if you have a Userplane user ID, you can see when your friends are online...
or you can see when they are online at a particular site where they have logged in. Presence now combines with remote virtual location info.... and will generate interesting permutations: Whom do you want to see where? *Do* you really want to have the same identity across multiple sites? Some people will say yes all the time; some will say no all the time; and some will make different choices for
different locations and for different friends.

And you thought *taxes* were complicated!

Whatever! Stay tuned. Userplane's installed base may trump the many hours of technical discussion going on in the ID community. And if what they have is really better, they should consider working with Userplane to get someone to use it.

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	Marjorie Lipan says: Userplane Interview with Mike Jones, CEO, Userplane by SocalTech.com Userplane on Technorati.com Userplane news (blog) RSS Applied's brief summary of Userplane with audio viual chats. (Reminds me of the wonderful chat ability of Flickr in the earlier days where photos could be shared. Here they say photos and videos can be shared. Were Here's talking about Userplane. They aren't the only ones. Many communities and message boards have information on adding Userplane to their services. There are too many to add here, so this one will represent them all. Listen to Mike Jones speaking in a short video Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	Marjorie Lipan says: Will the red wall become unavailable after your move? Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )
	Shannon Clark says: Mike Jones will be speaking in a few weeks at MeshForum 2006 - May 7-9 in San Francisco (http://www.meshforum.org) I'm the organizer of MeshForum, Mike will be speaking along with Marc Senasac from Broadband Mechanics, Anil Dash of Six Apart, Kris Jacob of Podshow and others on the subject of understanding large scale social networks. See the site for registration links and the full schedule - hope you can join us in San Francisco in May! (Esther spoke at MeshForum 2005) Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )
	BillyWarhol says: interesting* ;)) via Jeff Clavier's Software Only* Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

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