{"id":178,"date":"2008-07-07T23:01:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T03:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/2008\/07\/07\/more-on-the-microsoft-echoes-initiative\/"},"modified":"2008-07-07T23:03:38","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T03:03:38","slug":"more-on-the-microsoft-echoes-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/2008\/07\/07\/more-on-the-microsoft-echoes-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the Microsoft Echoes initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is making some noise within the global directory area with more announcements of its Echoes initiative.\u00a0 According to Mary Joe Foley, the platform will provide the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Syncs address book contacts over the air<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that IM messages work seamlessly with SMS<\/li>\n<li>Windows Live Messenger contacts get local numbers<\/li>\n<li>Voice calls from Messenger on PC to mobiles<\/li>\n<li>Offer some sort of presence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The platform will be similar to Skype and Google&#8217;s GrandCentral services.\u00a0 The end goal, however, needs to be the ability to &#8216;find and connect&#8217; one another without providing actual phone numbers &#8211; essentially allow people to connect via contextual listings (like email addresses, unique listings) and eliminate the need for phone numbers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is making some noise within the global directory area with more announcements of its Echoes initiative.\u00a0 According to Mary Joe Foley, the platform will provide the following: Syncs address book contacts over the air Ensure that IM messages work seamlessly with SMS Windows Live Messenger contacts get local numbers Voice calls from Messenger on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567,499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contextual-directory","category-microsoft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}