Judith blogs about Imeem:

The only description Ms. Glassberg [who wrote the PR] gives us of stealth-mode Imeem is: ”...The software will provide social networking capabilities and other features along a distributed network…”

Also mentioned in this venturewire is Ted Malone, a new member of the Imeem team formerly from TiVo, who is quoted as saying that a beta version of the Imeem software will be released before the end of 2004.

I reviewed WiredReach some time ago: a peer-to-peer based social networking approach. But this area is ripe for competition, especially with regard to presence and real-time communication opportunities.

Trust me; I have talked these ideas up with literally dozens of the existing competitors, and NO ONE IS LISTENING. They continue to be focused on email and portal based approaches, because they are easy and "everyone has email" and "we don't want to create a new client."

I believe the company that dreams up a cool integration of buddy-lists, mobility, proximity, meetup-ish blending of on and offline interaction, and RSS aggregation of people's online persona (profiles, blogs, comments, dossiers composed of the stray bits we leave behind everywhere) will really be onto something, and will make today's out-of-content, portal-based solutions look immediately ancient and unweildy. The right critical mass of features could induce the mildly interested early adopters to drop what they are doing at LinkedIn or Tribe.net, and stream onto a better paradigm of online networking: namely, real-time.

I gotta talk to these folks. Anyone out there in a position to introduce me?