Crushed by the Wave
Monday, June 15th, 2009 Posted in Jabber/XMPP, Web | No Comments »As many of the blog reading net citizens Google has recently (well some time ago actually, but still feels pretty recent) opened up a draft for their Wave protocol. They plan to work together with "the community" to improve it ...
socialXMPP
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Jabber/XMPP, Web | No Comments »As I've already mentioned earlier I've been thinking about using XMPP for social networking for some time. I have now started hacking on a web application as a proof of concept. It's nothing fancy yet (especially not very social), but I ...
Trying out strophejs
Sunday, December 21st, 2008 Posted in Jabber/XMPP | No Comments »So I'm going to the 25C3 in Berlin this year (my first time actually). So obviously I looked through the Schedule and found a XMPP related talk that sounded interesting: Privacy in the social semantic web: Social networks based on XMPP. Well, ...
Proof enough?
Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in Jabber/XMPP | No Comments »Today (actually for some people as early as 3+ days ago it seems) a new buddy appeared on almost everybody's ICQ contact list called "ICQ System" with the number 12111. This has been added by ICQ themselves. Their site states: As ...
Open Discussion Day: The aftermath
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in FreeSoftware, Jabber/XMPP, Life | No Comments »As some people might have noticed, yesterday was the Open Discussion Day. On that day people are encouraged to not use any legacy IM services (see my (german) reasoning, or google for more details). Of course you should tell your ...
Social Networks
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 Posted in Jabber/XMPP, Life | 1 Comment »I just watched a very interesting video of the Panel "Die Zukunft der Social Networks" from the re:publica08 conference (MP4). Here are some things I learned: social networking really is only a replacement for not being able to design/write a webpage yourself Facebook ...
The wonders of indexing
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 Posted in Jabber/XMPP | No Comments »I just noticed that this server's jabber server is actually listed on Jabberstats. I guess they are just looking all over the net to get some stats on the number of jabber servers, but still it seemed very strange and very ...