Caught myself looking at another wireless technology. This is magpie, a future (but possibly past) feature of the symbian operating system for phones and PDAs.
http://www.symbian.com/technology/magpie.html
Salient points:
1) Really basic. Web sites should display a posted-date for the information. This is relevant to most people's research. For eample, if the date is over a year ago, then I can expect that the feature is already implemented, if it is ever going to be. There's probably a way to discover this somehow using view source.
2) Great idea to include trans-task functionality. It is a big deal to stop what you are doing, and then click away to find out other information. Some information is either always relevant (like new mail), or applies to many tasks (like the weather).
Keen method of registering widgets to listen to other widgets, and display if there's a listen+broadcast match.
3) Where is the page that lines up MS technology <old technology but name du jour> with competition like symbian. Rows would include phone brands adopted, features supported, apps developed or in development, wireless infrastructure required (such as 3G etc.)
4) Here is the interesting part. Assume you're "always on." Can you deliver relevant updates to your team members by broadcasting them automatically? Not an e-mail, which is asynchronous, and not an IM, which rewquires a response, but a status (such as the reason why today's build did not pass bvt and which developer should skip his trip to starbucks this morning). Magpie is a great match for this.
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