I think that thinking has drastically changed. Almost every one want you to use Twitter/Facebook Connect so that they can get access to your social graph. I am pretty sure that the same perso today will insist that you use one of these third party authentication schemes.

Aswath

The point is companies are taking too long warming up to the idea. Most of them do not understand the need for third party authentication tools like OpenID, and some are too snobby to do that. Not very long back, as a consultant I suggested the same to a very well known south India-headquartered media group who opened shop in Delhi a couple of yrs back when they were launching their business magazine-cum-social network. The editor told me that he wants everything to be what he termed as — “under full control” of the group. This was backed by the tech team who were from the groups subsidiary company. Not only they backed him, but created a sense of fear as if the third party authentication tools were actually snooping tools.

Needless to say, I didn’t go back after receiving the first cheque.

Congrats!

This is definitely a milestone for EnThinnai.

There could also be potential intra-home Applications for these Micro-servers.

Prakash

You are correct in the immediacy of pulled Presence information. But I submit that we don’t want to see the presence info of all our buddies when we open the buddy list. Most of the time, we are interested in the Presence info of a single person or a small group of buddies. I think this is a good compromise given the other concerns identified in the post.