Tag Archives: xmpp

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

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Hosted messaging platforms

At Cleartext we’ve been using the @Mail platform from Calacode, chosen because they are an Australian company (so there’s local support.. cough) and because their platform is in use by lot’s of ISP types, like iiNet. @Mail has been very … Continue reading

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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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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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Data portability, connecting social networks

Having followed XMPP since it’s inception in 1999 and developed software around the platform, I can see some widespread activity in the greater web, rather than just discreet deployments as an IM platform. The XMPP community is talking about social … 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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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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