Monthly Archives: May 2009

Still splashing around with Wave

Posted on May 31, 2009 by David Banes

I skipped through the Google Wave video again today and I must say that what they are showing us is a cool(ish) web app that’s really only looking good because of the near real time updates, which are driven by … Continue reading →

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Small things

Posted on May 30, 2009 by David Banes

You know one of the small features off xIMpp that I like is that the tweet’ length display changes colour and goes orange if you’re getting close to the max characters, red when you’re REALLY close to 140 chars and … Continue reading →

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More on Google Wave…

Posted on May 30, 2009 by David Banes

Google announced Google Wave yesterday, described as ‘what would email look like if it was invented today’ Here’s my own bullet point summary; Moves Google along the real time web tech path Web based, close to real time collaborative messaging … Continue reading →

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Google stays on the XMPP train with Wave

Posted on May 29, 2009 by David Banes

‘Wave’ is an extension of XMPP. – http://www.waveprotocol.org/whitepapers/google-wave-architecture The core of XMPP is ratified by the IETF and the XSF (XMPP Standards Foundation) manages the process of adding new functionality via XMPP Extension Protocols (XEPs) – http://xmpp.org/extensions/ Hopefully Google will … Continue reading →

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Midly amusing…

Posted on May 26, 2009 by David Banes

I jumped onto OneRiot the beta real time search engine and decided to search for  XMPP as there’s a lot of real time chat about using XMPP as a real time web protocol, the following was the result of the … Continue reading →

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Apple pushes more XMPP

Posted on May 19, 2009 by David Banes

Apple’s always had an XMPP (Jabber) solution within it’s OSX based XServe platform and supported it on the desktop with iChat so it’s nice to see that they’ve now used it in their new iPhone push notification service. The source … Continue reading →

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Outsourcing CRM – What a daft idea unless…

Posted on May 13, 2009 by David Banes

We’re a SaaS company, filtering email and web traffic. It makes sense to do this as a service because the traffic is coming from the net anyway. But whilst taking another look at CRM’s, primarily because some friends of mine … Continue reading →

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Photos :: HaveYouSeenThisGuy.com

Posted on May 10, 2009 by David Banes

Photos :: HaveYouSeenThisGuy.com.

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Australian XMPP Meetups

Posted on May 4, 2009 by David Banes

I’m hoping to get some Australian XMPP meetups happening, Sydney first then Melbourne. Anyone interested please register here; http://www.meetup.com/Sydney-XMPP-Meetup/

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OMG EnerNOC Brings Instant Messaging to the Smart Grid | Sustainability | Fast Company

Posted on May 4, 2009 by David Banes

An interesting use of XMPP. OMG EnerNOC Brings Instant Messaging to the Smart Grid | Sustainability | Fast Company.

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