Category Archives: Leading Edge

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

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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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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

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XMPP Standards Foundation

We’re please to announce that we’ve become a sponsor of the XMPP Standards Foundation . XMPP has been around since 1999 and was/is commonly called Jabber Instant messaging, but it’s much more than that now as social networks take off … Continue reading

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VPS with 2 and 4Gb :)

I’ve been looking for a VPS solution that offers 2Gb or more for a while now, and Slicehost have something that may run Clearspace!

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Data portability, connecting social networks

Having followed XMPP since it’s inception in 1999 and developed software around the platform, I can see some widespread activity in the greater web, rather than just discreet deployments as an IM platform. The XMPP community is talking about social … Continue reading

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Online Armor

Online Armor gets Firewall of the Year from Computerworld Editor in Chief, Scot Finnie. Go here for the full article on Scot’s blog.

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Creating Clearspace plugins

Clearspace is an excellent example of a product that makes something more by combining some parts. I bet many of us have thought about how best to use technolgies like blogs, wiki’s and forums. Well think no more and just … Continue reading

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Amazing…

I often wonder who makes commercials like these, and their can’t be many people like this capable of producing them!

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Joyent: Slingshot

And while I was looking for Flex related content I found Slingshot another excellent idea for deploying desktop apps. This one is a bit like Google Gears allowing browers apps to run offline.

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Flex

I was asked about Flex today and surprisingly I remembered that it’s a cool OS and browser independent development platform, using ActionScript and Flash, I think. Anyway, if you’re looking for a new way to deliver apps that will work … Continue reading

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