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  • Name: David Smith
  • Email: david@jivesoftware.com
  • Member Since: Jan 11, 2007
  • Last Logged In: Jun 23, 2008 2:38 AM
  • Status Level: Jiver Jiver (248 points)
  • Location: Portland, OR
  • Homepage: http://dscoder.com
  • Company: Jive Software
  • Company Size: 25-99
  • Industry: Technology
  • Fav Program Lang: io

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Earlier today I exported our svn repository for SparkWeb and committed the intial import to the new open source repository! Instructions for getting and building the source are available. Getting and Building SparkWeb. A chat room for discussion of SparkWeb development can be found at sparkweb@conference.igniterealtime.org. I'm looking forward to seeing what the community can do! :)

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I'm happy to announce that we've just released an initial beta of XIFF 3.0, our open source ActionScript library for building XMPP clients. Continuing along the path set by Sean and the previous developers of XIFF, we've moved to embrace ActionScript 3 and Flex, while adding significant functionality improvements at the same time. Highlights include BOSH support, VCard support, and redesigned APIs. Feedback is strongly requested; It has been quite a while since a XIFF release, and a lot of things have changed, so I will be interested to see how the community feels about the direction we've taken things.

Some parts of this new release are still in a transitional stage. For example, SASL support is only available for BOSH connections at the moment. As more code is generalized between the BOSH and Socket connections, this limitation will go away.

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Yesterday I ran across an extremely exciting fact: AOL is now running an XMPP server at xmpp.oscar.aol.com that accepts logins from AIM/ICQ accounts and can talk with AIM/ICQ contacts. This means that there's suddenly 53,000,000 more people (according to 2006 numbers from Neilsen/Netratings) that are accessible from XMPP. I've made a brief timeline of important events in XMPP's growth.

1999: Creation of XMPP
2003: Jive Software releases the first version of Jive Messenger
2003: XMPP passes ICQ in number of users
2004: IETF approves XMPP as an official standard
2004: Google Talk released, dramatically increasing XMPP's market reach
2005: Apple announces XMPP support in iChat and Mac OS X server
2006: LiveJournal adds XMPP support, creating 14 million XMPP accounts in the process
2008: AOL creates an XMPP-OSCAR bridging server, adding another 50 million or so users accessible via XMPP

As you can see, over the last four years XMPP has gone from a relatively tiny force to a huge player in the IM world. Now all we need is for Microsoft, Yahoo, and QQ to follow suit and most IM users will be able to talk to each other without the hassle of creating accounts on each service and using lots of different programs (or multi-protocol programs) to connect to them.

I'm extremely excited about the possibilities of this, although a little worried about the lack of public acknowledgement from AOL. Hopefully they will continue to move forward with this, and make an announcement in the near future.

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