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Messenger taps social nets

This looks very interesting -- finding expertise using instant messaging tools. "To search for information, a user sends a question to his own referral agent, which broadcasts the query to all of the user's buddies' agents. A referral agent in the buddy's messenger searches its information identity profile to see if that person is likely to be able to answer the question. If not, the agent either returns empty results or forwards the query to its buddies, depending on how the user has set the software." [thanks Patti Anklam]

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