Category Archives: Blogging

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 →

I believe that IF there was a God then this God would see us all as equals under one church. I’ve formed the opinion that the core values mainstream religions teach strive to create compassionate, honest and caring attitudes towards … Continue reading →

I was just reading this Ferris piece on Exchange mailbox sizes and thought it would be useful to document Cleartext’s strategy for our hosted email clients storage. The Ferris article starts; ‘Exchange 2010′s database strategy is very interesting. The new … Continue reading →

We often notice that despite our advice clients insist on leaving a ‘backup’ MX record in their DNS, this means that they a) don’t understand how spammers operate b) don’t understand that we have primary, secondary and tertiary routes for … Continue reading →

‘No speed limit, no crash barriers and no street lights’, that would have been fun at night in a fast car Some great picture here.

We had a glorious weekend and I actually managed to avoid doing any work, well all but 30 minutes. I also managed to order replacement wing mirrors for my Rover, someone managed to clip the drivers side mirror while it … Continue reading →

Your credit balance has expired Unfortunately, your Skype Credit balance has expired due to 180 days inactivity on your account. We sent you three reminder emails, but as we explained, this now means the balance you had in your account … Continue reading →

Because they can. Many times in the last 20 years I’ve seen independent  software vendors and IT solution providers flounder following an announcement by Microsoft about a new product. It seems that if they (Microsoft) see  a lucrative new area … Continue reading →