Is this why Twitter-IM doesnt scale?
It's been said that twitters IM gateway has been one of the causes for their scale issues, and I just logged into one my older gmail accounts I only use for IM (and twitter-im in particular):
What I found greeting me was 3-4 messages with "off line
Comments (8) . Thursday, 12 June 2008
Messenger 9, GTalk integration, Messenger API, new client for Mac OS X - news unveiled at Georgia Tech presentation (whew) - LiveSide - News blog
Is Microsoft finally recognizing the power of the XMPP/Jabber protocol for IM? It doesn't quite sound like it, but would be good to see them just adopt XMPP natively (even if they did so in a Microsoft styled walled garden network).
Internal build
Comments (0) . Tuesday, 6 November 2007
El Cheapo VOIP Phone
Picked up an el-cheapo USB Skype Phone from Dick Smith Electronics today - not sure if I'll use it much as I don't use Skype - favouring Google Talk instead, although the new release of Gizmo Project is looking interesting.
Amusingly I sent myself a
Comments (0) . Saturday, 3 March 2007
myjabber.net transports offline...
For the last week or so I've noticed that myjabber.net's MSN, ICQ, and AOL transports have been offline with no response from the support email address. I know I can't really complain about a free service but, wait - yes I can :( Responding to the
Comments (7) . Thursday, 14 December 2006
Peter Millard
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Hmmm, I've started this post about ten times alredy, everything I write just doesn't quite fit or sound right - silence is about as much that seems appropriate.
Via Ralph and St Peter I he
Comments (0) . Friday, 28 April 2006
Instant Mobile Messaging - Pull Me Push Me Make Me Beep
Several weeks ago a new version of our popular UK product Bulletin Mail was released with support for external IMAP, POP3, and Jabber/XMPP servers. A Bulletin Mail account gives the user an email address which maps to their mobile allowing anyone t
Comments (0) . Tuesday, 13 September 2005
Google Talk...
It looks like everyones talking about Google's forth coming XMPP/Jabber server at the moment, hybernauut has a page showing connection details for Gaim.The guts of it are that your "JID" (Jabber User Id) is the same as your Gmail email addr
Comments (1) . Wednesday, 24 August 2005
JSF Dis-Membership...
I seem to be in the unfortunate position to be on the list of people up for renewal in the current JSF election round, but due to a mailserver rebuild/crash I lost alot of mail and didn't become aware of this untill it was too late.
Unfortunately
Comments (0) . Tuesday, 10 May 2005
Meeting other bloggers...
Note: This was originally posted as a comment to Choas Theory as a comment. I thought my rant interesting enough to repost as its own story.
I've always been weirded out by other peoples apparantly weirded-outness of meeting other bloggers, or o
Comments (2) . Tuesday, 10 May 2005
Jabber SMS transport
Ages ago I wrote the beginnings of an SMS transport as an experimental test-bed for applications at work, unfortunately other-project upon other-project always seemed to get in the way of actually furthering the code, or getting any XMPP related func
Comments (1) . Tuesday, 12 April 2005