Wednesday, August 24, 2005


The Mainstreaming of Jabber


Google launches yet another new service. Their own client is Win32 only, but, at least as far as basic functionality is concerned, that doesn’t matter as they’ve based their service on the very open Jabber (XMPP) protocol, so all of these are usable with the service. If you’ve already got a Gmail acoount, then you already have a Jabber account. Russell Beattie points out some of the nice things about Jabber here.

You can add me as a Jabber contact: marmoset AT gmail dot NOSPAM com. If you need a gmail account, just let me know in the comments of this entry.


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Comments:

George Hotelling wrote:

Title: Server-to-server

Date: 8/24/2005 09:12:53

Response:
As of last night, server-to-server communication wasn't enabled; I'm still testing it this morning but didn't get any of my authorization requests from last night back. If they don't enable S2S then it's no better than any other IM service. Or, to invoke Reagan, Mr. Brin and Mr. Page tear down this wall!
d.w. wrote:

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Date: 8/24/2005 21:13:02

Response:
Looks like they want to do S2S eventually: http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jbeda/249/#271467



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