@sanjiva - in most work situations, people will 'know' at least a handful of folk in their immediate 'network' which can provide a starting point. Tags is one method of discovery as are 'words' used in messages.
FYI - there is a design discussion underway re: the current client. D -:) On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (FYI this conversation has no impact on the acceptance or not of the > proposal .. just my curiosity. So if you feel there's a better place for > this conversation please point me there.) > > When you say its really a tool to discover right people can you elaborate on > what that means? Is there some protocol or do you tag yourself with stuff > and then others discover you or ?? > > I did visit the site and log in with my OpenID but that didn't make any more > sense; looks like the twitterfox client I use :). > > Thanks, > > Sanjiva. > > Dennis Howlett wrote: >> >> @sanjiva - I'll field this as the 'positioning' guy. >> >> You 'can' regard ESME as a 'Twitter for Enterprise' but we prefer not >> to do so because we then get tangled in all sorts of arguments and >> comparisons that deflect from how we see the service. >> >> The premise upon which we started this project was that Twitter style >> services are generic and have no intrinsic purpose other than to >> provide a flow of data. We wanted to provide context and purpose >> because that is what enterprise understands. >> >> In our early demo iterations, we therefore positioned this as a tool >> that helps both the discovery of the *right* people within distributed >> networks who can help solve problems, lend advice or point in the >> direction of others in a 'behind the firewall' setting. >> >> We created use cases to support that idea using SAP specific business >> processes and then showing different ways of using the tool with >> different clients such as web and WebDynpro (SAP specific). >> >> I invite you to visit the blog: http://blog.esme.us (it MAY be >> slightly flaky as we've just moved servers and it hasn't been fully >> tested) where team members have posted a variety of information on use >> cases, client side code examples etc. >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> Thanks >> >> D -:) > > > -- > Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. > Founder & Director; Lanka Software Foundation; http://www.opensource.lk/ > Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/ > Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ > Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/ > > Blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- This message is: private and confidential [ ] bloggable with prior permisssion [ ] bloggable without permission [ ] Dennis Howlett t: +34 953 708 636 (int'll) m: +34 607 482 739 (int'l) skype: dahowlett --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
