Presence takes another step forward

Both Paul Jardine and myself have had several thoughts on presence and communities.

Just stumbled across Yahoo 360 that takes the idea of community and presence another step toward what Paul would begin to call Internet 2.0.

It allows you to combine several themes into one convenient space and connect to friends, peers and colleagues.

There is a space that links you back to any Yahoo Groups you are a member of and non-group contacts, which can be added by Messenger and/or Email address lists. Your contacts show who is online or not and you can include RSS feeds to keep you up to date on your cyber-self.

It's only one step away from having point and click speech integration, now that Yahoo Messenger is voice enabled.

Watch this space to see how successful the evolution of this is.