Tag Archives: IM

IM making the switch…

Well after years using multi-protocol chat programs like Adium to access my Hotmail, Yahoo!, .Mac and Jabber accounts I’ve made the switch to a ‘pure’ XMPP (Jabber) chat client. At the moment that’s Psi as it’s multi-platform running on Mac, … Continue reading

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Google App Engine to support XMPP

News this week that Google App Engine plans support for XMPP this year.

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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

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AIM SDK … how wrong can they be.

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 … Continue reading

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On ‘Cisco gets the XMPP message…’

An interesting article on the Jabber acquisition from Kurt Cagle on O’Reilly’s web site.

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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

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XMPP Foundation

I’ve been prompted into putting my hand up for a position on the board of the XMPP Foundation. Sounds like a good gig

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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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You really do need your own enterprise IM system

The article linked below should demonstrate a good enough reason to use an enterprise IM platform rather than public IM. Apart from the levels of ‘security’ offered by each public IM network it’s fairly obvious from the embedded chart that … Continue reading

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OpenFire Enterprise goes Open Source

Great news that Jive Software have open sourced the Enterprise features of OpenFire, read the post here.

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