Patent ID: 8209383

Claim:
A method, comprising: obtaining, by a computing device, a web feed describing content of an originating user published over a network; obtaining, by the computing device, presence data describing an online presence of the originating user and an online presence of one or more other users included in a list of contacts that a recipient of the web feed would have an increased likelihood of being interested in communicating with; and concurrently outputting, by the computing device to the recipient, the web feed with the presence data of the originating user to indicate whether the originating user and the one or more other users are available to communicate with the recipient and to identify two or more techniques to electronically communicate, based in part on the presence data, with at least one of the originating user or the one or more other users, the presence data being incorporated within the content of the originating user; wherein the presence data describing the online presence of the originating user is obtained from a presence service and the web feed is obtained from a service different than the presence service.