On Jan 31, 2007, at 9:26 AM, Sam Sethi wrote:
Personally I hope XMPP becomes the interoperable standard for
presence and
then we an build apps on top of this? Twitter, Gmail and Joost are
all using
XMPP and this potentially will allow me to set my presence, mood and
status
in one app and have it ripple through to the others.
I sure hope so.
As an IM client developer (I work on Adium in my free time), I would
absolutely love it if XMPP were used more -- it's an open standard
which helps a lot during protocol implementation. It's not quite as
nice as it could be, since XMPP is by definition highly extensible and
it's feature set is vast. Trying to develop against a large, moving
standard is not the most fun thing to do -- although it's a different
type of not-fun from picking apart OSCAR packets. ;)
Investigating embedding microformats into XMPP is something that
people have talked a lot about, but nobody has really done. As usual,
it's those darn existing implementations that we shouldn't break that
get in the way of progress ;)
-Colin
(FWIW, there is/was an effort to develop a framework on OS X[1] for
unified presence and messaging on that desktop, but development has
sputtered and it's not really moving forward).
[1] http://chatkit.net
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