Cisco just announced that they are buying Jabber. GigaOm has a post on it. What does this mean?  What big trend is this validating? REAL TIME WEB - It's a hedge against the so called Unified Communications sector.  Wait — it is Unified Communications.  Why?  XMPP Jabber is based on Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), the [...]

Last Monday's post was a bunch of directions on how to install Laconica on your own server. What the directions failed to mention was how to set up the good stuff - XMPP, SMS, and posting via email. Today I'll go over how to get XMPP and SMS running. SMS Populate carriers table If you look in the [...]

I gave a talk on XMPP at Austin on Rails this past Tuesday (Sept 23, 2008).  Many thanks to all who attended. I've finally gotten around to cleaning up my slide deck and most of the code I showed. You can find the slides HERE on SlideShare. You can grab the code HERE on GitHub.        [...]

... , highly-scalable standards-based way." Gnip is a sort of proxy that makes data from diverse Publishers--services like Delicious or Twitter, which create activity content--available in a unified format, and notifies Consumers--like FriendFeed or Plaxo--via a push interface when new data is available. The new version of the API adds full data delivery, XMPP support, and advanced data filtering.

... "Live Web." Twitter and FriendFeed move too fast. XMPP needed (which is a chat protocol)." 10:00 am ... approach a way to basically chat using these services. GTalk is XMPP already, right? - Monia  Friendfeed and Twitter have really opened my eyes to ... (Twitter,MySpace,Facebook) and Robert Scoble's right about XMPP being the solution. Yammer is doing it best (technically) right now via Jack Moffitt's ...

... of people that I usually only read online, which was pretty cool. I gave a presentation entitled WTF is XMPP? mostly centered around non-instant messaging applications of XMPP. I think it went well, the room was pretty full and I talked a lot with people after the event which plan to use XMPP in the short term. The organizers did a wonderful job, and I want to thanks Alcides to push...