Tag Archives: xmpp

Twitter Launches Verified Accounts

News on Twitter Verified Accounts from Mashable. Twitter Launches Verified Accounts. This is great news, many people are trying hard to block identity theft on the net so it’s important that new mediums take this seriously as soon as possible, … 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.

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Comments on ‘Microsoft architecture chief: Google Wave ‘anti-web”

I just read an article on The Register about Ray Ozzie and why he thinks Google Wave is “anti-web”. It’s a bizarre read because if it’s accurate he’s saying that the web relies on open standards, this coming from a … Continue reading

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Still splashing around with Wave

I skipped through the Google Wave video again today and I must say that what they are showing us is a cool(ish) web app that’s really only looking good because of the near real time updates, which are driven by … Continue reading

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Small things

You know one of the small features off xIMpp that I like is that the tweet’ length display changes colour and goes orange if you’re getting close to the max characters, red when you’re REALLY close to 140 chars and … Continue reading

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More on Google Wave…

Google announced Google Wave yesterday, described as ‘what would email look like if it was invented today’ Here’s my own bullet point summary; Moves Google along the real time web tech path Web based, close to real time collaborative messaging … Continue reading

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Google stays on the XMPP train with Wave

‘Wave’ is an extension of XMPP. – http://www.waveprotocol.org/whitepapers/google-wave-architecture The core of XMPP is ratified by the IETF and the XSF (XMPP Standards Foundation) manages the process of adding new functionality via XMPP Extension Protocols (XEPs) – http://xmpp.org/extensions/ Hopefully Google will … Continue reading

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Midly amusing…

I jumped onto OneRiot the beta real time search engine and decided to search forĀ  XMPP as there’s a lot of real time chat about using XMPP as a real time web protocol, the following was the result of the … Continue reading

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Apple pushes more XMPP

Apple’s always had an XMPP (Jabber) solution within it’s OSX based XServe platform and supported it on the desktop with iChat so it’s nice to see that they’ve now used it in their new iPhone push notification service. The source … Continue reading

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Australian XMPP Meetups

I’m hoping to get some Australian XMPP meetups happening, Sydney first then Melbourne. Anyone interested please register here; http://www.meetup.com/Sydney-XMPP-Meetup/

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OMG EnerNOC Brings Instant Messaging to the Smart Grid | Sustainability | Fast Company

An interesting use of XMPP. OMG EnerNOC Brings Instant Messaging to the Smart Grid | Sustainability | Fast Company.

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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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Why XMPP will be huge very soon | Potent Flows

Why XMPP will be huge very soon | Potent Flows.

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IBM/Lotus Sametime & XMPP?

Spotted on the Twitter time line today; “lotusfederal: @TwistyRoadsCrvr Let’s talk. Where are we falling short? Our focus is on SIP/SIMPLE, but with XMPP compatibility via ST Gateway and plugins.”

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The open letter to RIM about IM interop for BlackBerries

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 … 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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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 … Continue reading

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MSN connection problems…

Also on Twitter, and I agree sooner we’re all using XMPP the better.

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Facebook XMPP?

Just spotted this on Twitter.

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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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Twitterspy…

Well, it took a while but I finally got Twitterspy working on our ejabberd server. I’m not at all surprised that the process broke our Yahoo! IM gateway as I had to update to the latest version of Python… the … Continue reading

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Elang and ejabberd

I’ve decided on my Xmas break project, learn abit more about the Erlang progamming language and ejabberd, the XMPP server written in Erlang. To kick start this I just bought the PDF version of Programming Erlang by Joe Armstrong. A … 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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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.

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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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