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 XMPP networks”
Especially when some of the other big networks like AIM and Yahoo! are looking at XMPP.
Having just written an article on XMPP and IM federation, which I must admit is rather focused on my own views, but then that’s better than cutting and pasting from someone else I suppose, I thought I’d do a bit of development.
So pulling out the latest development environment and a copy of /n softwares brilliant IP*Works product I had an XMPP IM client running in no time. So what else? I headed over to AOL as I recalled something about OpenAIM, and a developers kit for their AIM network. Thinking it would be fun to write an application that did XMPP and AIM.
Well, that was short lived. I found the section on ‘AIM Custom Clients’ and though I’d better check out the restrictions, expecting to have to carry advertisements or a large AIM logo, to be shocked to find this;
‘… developers are not permitted to build AIM Custom Clients that are multi-headed interoperable with any other IM network.’ Read more…
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