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JabberMaps is ready for public beta testing! I shall now lazily paste the text from my blog. You'll have to go there for all of the fancy hyperlinks, but here's the main one: http://www.jabbermaps.com/servers/ October 20, 2005 at Oct 20, 05 | 9:17 pm ยท Filed under Jabber, Internet, Projects, Software Everybody put your hands together for JabberMaps! Before you say, "hey hasn't this already been done?" let me answer. No, it hasn't. This is for servers, not jabber users! Created by CarlB of Jabberzilla fame, we have a new system for finding the fastest and most reliable Jabber server for YOU. When choosing a Jabber server, what are the criteria? * Location, for latency issues * Uptime, for reliability issues JabberMaps, by taking advantage of Google Maps (duh, isn't everyone?), can help you pinpoint precisely where that server is located. Plus it obtains uptime data from the Public Jabbernet database so you don't pick a dud. :) Go there: JabberMaps Carl has now gotten this app to a stable point and it works well. Now he needs your help. Please try it out. Tweak all of the buttons, take it for a drive. Then use the feedback link and please let him know what you think. I myself have one comment so far. I'd like to see features, like we have on the location-challenged jabber.org server list. Other than that its just great. :) In case you are curious for some more background, my part in this is that jabbermaps is hosted on my server. So don't slashdot it please. Well, I don't think we've had one before so it would be educational anyways. :/ Also, there has been some new developments since stpeter announced the XMPP Federation, which aims to be a definitive network resource for XMPP. I don't actually know this, but I suspect it will replace the server list on jabber.org. Peter is also collectiong geolocation data, so there might be some sort of interaction between this database and JabberMaps in the future. We have discussed moving it to his server as well to keep the branding that our communiity would benefit from. Anyway, please do check it out and and report back. :) -- Psi webmaster (http://psi-im.org) im:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://halr9000.com
