Author Archives: David Banes

I’ve moved to Tumblr… http://dbanes.tumblr.com/ or http://davidbanes.com/ I’ll point my www. address over there soon.

Cleartext was one of the first providers of combined business class hosted email and managed email security when we launched ClearEmail in 2005. Today we are pleased to announce that we’re adding Microsoft Hosted Exchange to our list of services*. … Continue reading →

There’s exciting news today as we’re launching a new business to sit alongside our established Cleartext messaging business, we’re calling it Cleartext Systems, a trading name we already own under Cleartext Pty Ltd. Since 2005 we’ve come across an increasing … Continue reading →

I just noticed that Twitter for Mac re-writes your timeline to show old style RT’s as new ones:)

We recently had a client ask about using Microsofts new Outlook for Mac on our hosted email and collaborations services, here’s the short version of the quick look into this. Basically Outlook for Mac 2011 doesn’t support and calendaring standards … Continue reading →

We recently moved from Australia to the UK for a while to spend more time with extended family and further develop the already growing customer count in Europe. We thought we’d covered everything in the move but I wasn’t prepared … Continue reading →

I will be presenting at Sea Beyond – Mobile Real Time Communication & Collaboration technical event in France. Presenting Cleartext’s work on real time microblogging over XMPP and making an announcement about Cleartext’s technology in this area. For more information on … Continue reading →

I get asked this occasionally as we’ve worked with Jive for about 5 years. If your main requirement is content creation and management with some social connections then it probably is. I’ve no doubt there are a lot of ‘me … Continue reading →

My 2c on bad policy and uninformed commentary http://www.cleartext.com/blog.html

This last week we officially launched our live services and desktop messaging app. We’ve been in pre-release and talking to clients for a while now and even managed to sign up some early users. Read more here.

I just checked my Facebook Privacy Settings ‘What your friends can share about you through applications and websites’ and the ‘My Birthday’ was still enabled – That’s a real privacy and identity theft risk as fas as I’m concerned and … Continue reading →

This article on The Australian’s web site talks about issues around tweeting. Cleartext’s platform can address some of these issues. The article demonstrates why Cleartext ESM exists at all. What a great side story to run as the Logies was … Continue reading →

To see how long it takes FeedBurner to find this… I think the prior post got picked up quickly just because I’d just signed up

I just hooked up by blog (http) to Googles FeedBurner service (http -> pubsubhubbub) and in turn to a PubSubHubbub -> XMPP Gateway hosted on Google App Engine. Why? To prove that you can get almost any web based content into an … Continue reading →

For those still wondering this is what a prompted Tweet looks like, note that it’s staying at the top of the tweet stream, despite the fact that it was posted 10 hours ago;

Here are a couple of screen grabs of Cleartext ESM desktop client. Showing the rich design features of this RIA (Rich Internet Application) for chat and microblogging. Detail of the message entry field and a couple of tweets

The Twitter Platform’s Inflection Point http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/04/the-twitter-platform.html and a follow up… Evan Williams’s Message to Twitter Developers http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/evan-williamss-message-to-twitter-developers/ My view is that the killer app is microblogging – that’s what many people have missed, just as email was (is) the killer … Continue reading →

New OR (Michael Osterman @mosterman) policy study: 19% of decision mkrs are very concerned about sensitive/confidential info being sent out of their orgs through Twitter. This is good news for Cleartext as our ESM (Enterprise Social Messaging) platform provides a … Continue reading →

Finally XMPP at Facebook – only client-server at the moment though, but that’s a good start… http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=297991732130 Here’s a screen shot of me connected using Psi for Mac(also available for Windows). As you can see I’m not a huge Facebook … Continue reading →

I thought people would like to have a peek at a screen shot of the current development version of the Cleartext ESM (Enterprise Social Messaging) desktop client. It’ll be a free download for Windows, Mac and Linux and included in … Continue reading →

I’ve had enough of being ripped off for mobile data roaming so I’ve sent this to Orange UK and Vodafone Au. You’d think that as a Vodafone client my data costs would be the same both here and in the … Continue reading →

New computing strategy: iPhone + 2 x iMac (home & office), #iPad replaces MacBook for sofa & travel email & surfing. #iPad case, first time I’ve seen a portable computer with a custom made case for years. Last was my … Continue reading →

Well it’s looking like it… —- cleartext01 ~: telnet chat.facebook.com 5222 Trying 69.63.181.104… Connected to chat.facebook.com. Escape character is ‘^]’. quit <?xml version=”1.0″?><stream:stream id=”none” from=”chat.facebook.com” xmlns=”jabber:client” xmlns:stream=”http://etherx.jabber.org/streams” version=”1.0″><stream:error><xml-not-well-formed xmlns=”urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-streams”/></stream:error></stream:stream>Connection closed by foreign host. cleartext01 ~: —-

Listen to Conroy on filtering, is he deliberately missing the point? It’s not about performance and what you’re blocking it’s about the fact that a western democracy is putting a Chinese type firewall in place. Let’s not even get into … Continue reading →

I was flicking through an older Slideshare presentation called ‘Microblogging via XMPP‘ (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) and it occurred to me that whilst there’s no doubt Twitter has redefined public internet messaging it’s not speeded up one to one … Continue reading →