Hello! First, I am sorry to break the "feed", but I was not subscribe to the list before, so I can't access the old mails (except from the archive : http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/social/2009-February/000470.html ).
I had the occasion to discuss XMPP with Dave Morin (Senior Platform Manager at Facebook) and he explicitly said they are both using XMPP for their chat and they want to "open" it as much as possible toward the outside. He even said they need some help with this, so I guess he was pretty serious about this. (I will point Dave to this discussion as well so he can complete/confirm this) So, I am really optimistic about it! Another good news is that he added that Facebook was actively interested into taking part of the "Activity Stream" ( http://activitystrea.ms/) of "Open Social". I immediately suggested that theyu should do it with XMPP as well (despite Twitter and Friendfeed's insistance to avoid/forget XMPP), but he legitimately added that they will stick with what OpenSocial suggests. SO I really really think we should have a few XMPP "lobbyists" at OpenSocial. I'd be glad to help with that since I -now- know Chris Messina and David Recordon 2 of their greater advocates, but I am afraid to be a little short on the technical points. Anyway, to sum up : I think XMPP should be more actively present in the Open Social Stack, specially at the Activity Stream level; What do you think? Julien -- Julien Genestoux http://www.ouvre-boite.com http://blog.notifixio.us +1 (415) 254 7340 +33 (0)9 70 44 76 29
