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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”.
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 the client disconnects. ”
As an proponent of XMPP for near real time messaging I must say that using a technology designed to pull data for this is slightly baffling. But then most developers know HTTP so I suppose it makes sense, but then again if the ‘firehose’ is only available to select few then it makes no difference.
I can’t help but think they took a wrong turn with XMPP by trying to get OpenFire to do the job, when they had been working with ejabberd, which is a much better base platform. Was OpenFire the cause of Alex Payne’s comments about Java libraries not handling the load? Did they talk to someone like ProcessOne about ejabberd’s clustering?
I suppose the best thing to do from here on in is to support the projects that support XMPP, the obvious ones being identi.ca and other Laconi.ca based mirco-blogging services like TWiT Army.
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 called CipherIM.
That product was modelled on the SMTP architecture with a proprietory plain text protocol. I soon ralised that this was a mistake and the last version of the CipherIM client was in fact built on the Jabber protocol, later to become XMPP.
There are big things ahead for XMPP now Cisco own Jabber Inc, look at the way Cisco has pushed the IronPort brand and products into their client base. I feel sure XMPP has a good shot at becoming the protocol of choice for human and machine based communications.
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 and architects are looking for a protocol to glue these systems together. XMPP has s shot at taking that space. We’ve been ‘lurking’ on the edges of IM/XMPP since 1999-2000 with our own EIM product called CipherIM which was unfortunately discontinued in 2003.
Keep checking at www.cleartext.net for news about our new XMPP platform later in 2008.
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!
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 networks and how XMPP could have a role in connecting these in a pub-sub fashion. An interesting article (spotted by Tamir ) on Social Media Today points towards this type of connectivity.
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.
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 install Clearspace and you’re all set, then start creating plugins to get that extra 10% you need.
Amazing…
I often wonder who makes commercials like these, and their can’t be many people like this capable of producing them!
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.
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 and look the same on different OS’ then Flex is worth a look.
My tweets...
- I'm in the UK, if anyone can refer me into firms looking for enterprise microblogging, IM or email solutions pls let me know :-)
- Has Vodafone binned One Social Web? http://tinyurl.com/22ngan6
- In the UK at the moment, looking for referrals into firms that may have requirerments our services can address.
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