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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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jabber.com disappearing…

It’s always a sad day when you see something like this…

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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.

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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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Jabber/XMPP update

Following on from my earlier post about reviewing technologies I’ve been having another look at the Jabber/XMPP community and there are some interesting things going on. OpenFire from Jive Software now includes public IM gateways in the open source version, … Continue reading

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