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Category Archives: IT
re:Where Is the Real-Time Web Message Bus?
Looking at my Google Alerts this morning I saw this one; Where Is the Real-Time Web Message Bus? ReadWriteWeb – CA,USA XMPP The technology with which IM clients interoperate. Being used by Yammer, Present.ly, … XMPP is low level and not … Continue reading
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Project ReTweet – Is Twitter breaking re-tweeting for some of us?
I was just reading this, which is all about formalising re-tweets via Twitters API; re: http://mashable.com/2009/08/13/details-project-retweet/ It struck me that this could break services like Cleartext ESM where we are proxying Twitter for generic XMPP desktop and mobile clients. We don’t … Continue reading
re The importance of email uptime
A great insight from Michael Osterman on email uptime. http://www.messagingwire.com/spv-26.aspx
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Apple pushes more XMPP
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
Jivespace: XMPP Notifications ?
There are some cool ideas in the thread linked below, in summary mapping Jive Clearspace spaces to XMPP pub sub nodes complete with the matching access rights. Now that would be very nice. Jivespace: XMPP Notifications ?.
National Aussie broadband network gets go ahead
Some good news about Au internet access. The Federal Government and private sector will invest up to $43 billion over eight years in a super-fast national broadband network, in the ”single biggest infrastructure decision in Australia’s history”. National broadband network … Continue reading
How embarassing…
You know I harp on about vendor – reseller relationships a lot because I believe if done well then resellers can materially increase the amount of business a vendor is able to close. I’m qualified to say what I think … Continue reading
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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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
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
Installing Twitterspy on Debian (etch)
Not a step by step but this will help to get TwitterSpy running on Debian. Dependencies Make sure you have these installed (in this order?) With Python, pysqlite and Twisted you need to download then run the following in each … Continue reading
re: Ferris 2009 Predictions: Immortalility, Mobility…
It’s nice when reputable research firms call something out that’s aligned with the Cleartext road map… See below… ‘Messaging SaaS will take off.’ and… ‘IM and presence integration with email clients will improve, and become an increasing expectation. This will, … Continue reading
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Book review: Openfire Administration
I’ve spent the last month or so reading this book and my summary is that it’s worth buying if you’re looking for an easy way to setup an enterprise, standards based IM platform. Continue reading
on iPhone shipments…
‘Apple shipped more iPhones during the quarter than all the Windows Mobile devices shipped worldwide by Microsoft’s partners, according to Canalys.’ More here…
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“I don’t really understand their strategy, maybe somebody else does.”
That’s the comment from the new Microsoft boss, the other Steve (Ballmer). Which just about sums up Microsoft. When you have a monopoly you can keep trundling out the same technology with a new GUI year after year and the … Continue reading
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The Register: IBM spins up AJAX collaboration project (xmpp)
The Register is reporting that IBM is working on a new platform for web based conferencing, looks like xmpp is in the mix.
New position – XMPP Standards Foundation
Well I’ve made it onto the Board of the XMPP Standards Foundation, see our press release. This is a significant thing for me, having been pushing Jabber/XMPP since about 1999 when Cleartext ‘version one’ was developing an Enterprise IM platform … Continue reading
Installing Axigen on 64bit Ubuntu (Debian)
I thought I’d post this, even though it’s not the sort of contect I usually post, because it was a bit tricky to get going. A few steps to getting the Axigen (32bit) mail server running.
Wrong turn for Apple
I’ve been waiting to upgrade my MacBook after moving from a 15″ PowerBook a while back, we’re now heavily invested in Mac’s at home and at the business, and in FireWire storage. It’s already at 2Gb RAM, had a new … Continue reading
Jabber on the move.
I’m convinced, but that doesn’t mean I’m right, that if Jabber/XMPP had strong gateways to other networks early on it would have got bigger sooner, here’s why.
A starter on Phorm
I’ve been asked couple of times recently about Phorm, NebuAd and similar technologies, so here’re some links to get you started. The following two transcripts of some Security Now episodes from Steve Gibson of GRC (Steve coined the phrase ‘spyware’) … Continue reading
ScanSafe Wins CNET Networks Award For Security Product Of The Year 2008
It’s good to see ScanSafe getting this award after the falling out with MessageLabs a few years back … Well done ScanSafe.
On ‘Cisco gets the XMPP message…’
An interesting article on the Jabber acquisition from Kurt Cagle on O’Reilly’s web site.
Lots of news about Jabber Inc
The IT news wires have been running hot with news of CISCO’s intent to acquire Jabber Inc. Most commentators ‘get it’ some are asking why would you bother when there’s no money in IM, obviously these people haven’t been following … Continue reading
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