Stuart is on talking about Presence.   If you haven't met him you will know he's just the guy to talk about it - he sure has a sense of presence at 6'5" and this deep voice.

He's being introduced by Thomas as the Skype blogger - and Thomas asked him to tell us how he got there. Stuart tells us about his starting off with blogging at his first blog Unbound Spiral and then becoming excited about Skype and focussing on it and then setting up the Skype Journal.

Notes from his presentation :

Whats your Presence strategy? It can't be isolated from your Skype strategy. He's asking us how many of us use Skype - most hands are raised. How many have more than 50 people on their buddylist? Not very many.

Makes an important point - talks about the Skype community - if Skype breaks our trust, they lose.

Lots of stories about how Skype is changing the way we have global conversations.

Personal Presence Servers - on websites, in directories, public and private.When does it make sense to share ? How much to share?

He's now taking us through new applications based on the Skype API.

The deeper questions he is asking - who owns your presence information? Who takes control of it? We want to own it. We want to control it. Skype must give us this option. Better still, let the developers and users determine this and leverage it.

Presence is a spiral - 3 stages of Online Presence - Presence Accessibility, Presence Experience, Presence Agents.

Lessons - developers must crawl under the Skype API - we need a more open space dialogue. Keep the API open - enable negotiation and facilitation and empowerment. Everyone benefits.

How does presence fit into your mobile life - it will accelerate communications and networking.