More often than not, it’s a Good Thing that users can learn and adapt to new software and new situations. Unfortunately, as my advisor Dr. John Anderson showed many years ago (with emacs and “perverse emacs” no less!), there can often be what is called “negative transfer”—users learn something so well that they want to […]
xmpp:Robert Quattlebaum has posted a little app which makes iChat support the xmpp: URI scheme! That means that you will be able to click links like xmpp:julian@jabber.org and iChat will pop up a new Jabber message window to me. Pretty cool!
One of the ramifications of this support is that you can put together a list […]
One of the Google Talk developers posted to the Jabber developer mailing list. An excerpt:
I’d like to let everybody know that Google will support open server-to-server federation, This will not happen immediately. We are still writing the code for server-to-server and we will test server-to-server with a few partners before opening it up.
Gary Burd on […]
It’s hard to tell what kind of impact Google Talk will have on the instant messaging world, but it’s important to note:
There’s no offline messaging. That’s right: One of the best features Jabber has over AIM and MSN is not present. The official Google Talk client has you send an email with gmail. Other clients […]
It looks like Google Talk could be quite interesting. Right this very second you can log in to talk.google.com using your gmail account from a Jabber client. s2s (server-to-server) support currently does not seem to be enabled. I’m sure that tomorrow we’ll see what this all means.
Update: Google Talk is live! Say hello to a […]
Much to my surprise, it seems that in 10.4.2 iChat’s XHTML-IM support has been fixed to comply with the specification. Awesome. That gets rid of my largest complaint. Hopefully other clients which implemented support for iChat’s old hacky version can drop that and we can live in an XHTML-IM-compliant world.
As a reminder, I have an […]
The Jabber Council finished voting on the Google Summer of Code applicants. The odd thing to me is that Peter didn’t mention that Thomas Muldowney didn’t get to vote. I just figured it was at least worth mentioning that not all Council members got to vote—I just assumed from Peter’s post that all Council members […]