I regularly receive quite a few links via instant message in any given day. I like this, as it’s a part of the social and connectionist processes which make the Internet function, and it’s part of how things can progress in “Internet time”.
Unfortunately sometimes I’m in a state of busyness in which I’m free to […]
Peter Saint-Andre says it best:
Peter Millard, my friend and a longtime contributor to the Jabber community, died last night. Peter fought a tough battle with cancer last year and seemed to have won. Suddenly, in the last few weeks, he faced a new battle with complications from his cancer therapy; he fought long and hard […]
CHI2006, the conference on human factors in computing systems, has released a final schedule [pdf]. I will be attending the event and I wanted to give you, my loyal (and not so loyal) readers, a chance to let me know if there’s anything at the conference you think I should attend.
The schedule link is a […]
This is just a quick note that I’ve renamed “Jabber FAQ for the Mac OS X Tiger User” to simply the Jabber in iChat FAQ. I’ve also updated it a bit, no longer blabbering on about Use Jabber and simply recommending that people seeking public servers get a Google Talk account (if anything, their servers […]
Not really. But if you just read headlines and marketing material, you might think that was the case. I fear we have long past the stage in which the word “open” is abused and should now be mistrusted. This is unfortunate.
Basically, AOL is now letting people display presence on web pages and use a (closed […]
[Update: Sometime after posting this, offline messaging support seems to have disappeared. Hopefully it will come back some day.]
With the announcement that Google Talk is now integrated with Gmail, I decided to test how exactly it works.
The chat history is recorded by the Google Talk server (if you enable it). This means that you can […]
I’m sure most of my readers already know this, but just in case: It took a little while, but Google Talk now talks to other public Jabber servers. That means that if you have a Google Talk account you should be able to send IMs to julian@jabber.org to talk to me. Very nice.
The next steps […]