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Category Archives: Work
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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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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The trouble with … part 2
News that well known URL shortening service, tr.im is closing down reinforces my last post about Twitter 3rd party apps.
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Social Networking and the Enterprise
A good article from Ferris here stating that enterprises need to consider security and compliance when bringing social networking into the business; Social Networking and the Enterprise. And a reminder my relevant articles are here; http://www.cleartext.com/downloads/IDM_NovDec_08_XMPP.pdf http://www.cleartext.com/downloads/IDM_MayJune_P5.pdf
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Customers as early adopters
I learned a while back that there are broadly three (or 5) types of client when it comes to technology; Early adopters Late majority Laggards. The interesting thing is that if you spot a company that fits into 1. above … Continue reading
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BBC leads the next wave of web experience with Hemlock
Another XMPP based platform. From TechCrunch Exclusive: BBC leads the next wave of web experience with Hemlock.
Dodgy spam stats…
It’s a long time since I first saw a well known anti-spam service provider pushing out a release saying “~90% of all email received was spam…” but it still makes me laugh when I see statements like this. The problem … 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 ?.
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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Good video from Graham at Sophos on Twitter ‘spammer’
As usual Graham producing good stuff, go here.
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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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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.
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.
Delphi 2009
CodeGear Delphi 2009 hit our office today, some cool new features in it like MS Office RibbonBar support, as long as you’re not writing an application that competes with Office of course, watch that MS small print! The ‘credit crunch’ … Continue reading
Cisco acquiring Jabber Inc
Huge news in the IM space today with Cisco announcing it’s acquisition of Jabber Inc the main vendor of XMPP IM and presence technology. Cisco now have and email and EIM platform, with IronPort they have email security so I … Continue reading
Akonix sells out
Akonix sold out this week which leaves just FaceTime as the only significant independent IM security vendor, not sure if this is good news or bad for the enterprise IM market.
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
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!