but i don't bring you fire. i thought about that, but then noticed someone had already done it. bastard. what i bring is almost as useful, if not more. we now have induction cookers, so the need for fire has dwindled a lot. these days, what we really need is a way to post stuff to twitter. i had thi...

During the last couple of days I started experimenting a little bit with XMPP (again) and also installed my own little ejabberd server. Right when I was finished with that, another project by ProcessOne popped up on my radar: Tweet.IM. Remember when Twitter still had that nice XMPP-gateway where you...

Every year I enjoy writing a post with my predictions for the next year.  It's a nice way to empty the old thoughts from my brains so there's room for new ones.  Plus I leave a trail of blog posts so I can see how my thoughts change from year to year. In retrospect I've realized that each year ten...

BitlBee - Home BitlBee brings IM (instant messaging) to IRC clients. It's a great solution for people who have an IRC client running all the time and don't want to run an additional MSN/AIM/whatever client. Tags: irc im server c opensource xmpp jabber msn yahoo aim icq Browse the Artifacts of Geek H...

The other day I wrote a post about unified communications, and how I feel the term "Unified Communications" (UC) is in danger of becoming too fuzzy to be practically useful.  While anecdotal evidence suggests that the term is gaining momentum at incredible speed, I noted that its defi...

386 - 7 minutes : When following a lot of friends in a flow environment and using XMPP, one sees the above numbers in less than ten minutes. I’d been using Adium, but Adium doesn’t smooth scroll between each received tweet. It constantly jerks messages upwards and has made it virtually i...

I’m digesting some of the reactions to Google’s recently announced Social Graph API. ReadWriteWeb ask whether this is a creeping privacy violation, and danah boyd has a thoughtful post raising concerns about whether the privileged tech elite have any right to experiment in this way with ...

Here is my quick dump of the notebook, probably useful to no one but me. Names mostly removed to protect the guilty. I think “Social Graph” is kind of a dumb phrase to apply to the back question of relationships. I promptly re-dubbed the event “Social Foo” and thereby found i...

I first wrote this quick introduction to XMPP for our blog at work, I’m publishing this copy over here to keep my useful posts in one place. Expect to find more posts on OSGi and XMPP here in the future. XMPP, aka Jabber, is making great strides into the world of instant messaging. Since Jerem...