Monthly Archives: February 2009

Gmail down again…

I know it’s not nice, but when you run a business you can’t help but smile when a provider in a similar space to you has ‘issues’, especially when that provider has won business at your expense. For the 4th … Continue reading

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Nothing to say

Usually when I’ve got nothing to say I say it over Twitter, today I thought I’d post to my blog. Which proves to me that micro blogging is useful, it’s far easier (esp over XMPP) than blogging.

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The open letter to RIM about IM interop for BlackBerries

Good to see someone encouraging Blackberry to federate their IM platform. Jason Salas has a short open letter on his blog. I’d like to support this. “An open hypertext letter to Research in Motion RE: Federation between BlackBerry Messenger and … Continue reading

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Google App Engine to support XMPP

News this week that Google App Engine plans support for XMPP this year.

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TwitterSpy problems…

Dustin posted on Twitter… “Looks like twitter is blocking twitterspy with their new whitelist limits. It’s hard to do fewer than 30 requests per hour per active user.” I’ve an idea that may be workable for this. Nagios has neat … Continue reading

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Twitter comes clean

Well, TechCruch reporting that Twitter are finally talking about their firehose, that stream of tweets that was XMPP is now HTTP… “The firehose is a stream HTTP solution; a client connects to it and the stream begins, ceasing only when … Continue reading

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