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Do You Really Want to Meet People on the Web?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-really-but-thanks dept.

Wolfspelz writes "Do you want to meet people on Web pages? The Jabber Virtual Presence project makes people aware of each other on the Web. Just like you are aware of other people in the real world anywhere you go, the virtual presence makes you aware of others on the same virtual locations. The project uses Jabber/XMPP as the transport protocol for virtual presence. Jabber conference components serve as presence servers. The code is GPL/LGPL. The Virtual Presence Protocol extensions are open and documented. The virtual presence system including the LLuna2 client is designed to protect the privacy and prohibit any indecent use, be it commercial use, advertising, or profiling. But: do you want to meet people on the Web at all?"

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  1. Another nice social networking concept... by fugas · · Score: 4, Informative

    Although I haven't downloaded this yet, it sounds like a fun social networking concept to me. Kind of a hybrid of the late Third Voice and the newer StumbleUpon (which I really love)

  2. Sounds like Odigo by linuxtelephony · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sounds like what Odigo started out as about 5 or 6 years ago. They provided you with a display so you could see who else was at the web site you were visiting, then you could IM them if you wanted. There was more, like the ability to search for people, etc.

    However, the lluna interface looks more interesting.

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  3. ICQ had made it by Madarco · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some years ago ICQ (mirabilis) tried to launch something similar: a chat integrated with browser where you meet the people on the same page, but without the avatars. I don't know where it has gone.

  4. Re:We used some of the Jabber presence features... by tcopeland · · Score: 4, Informative

    > the implication that Jabber is
    > somehow inherently slow

    Hm. It was too slow for our purposes - i.e., passing large numbers of large messages around to track a distributed agent system. I'm sure it's fast enough for most uses.

    > The Jabber4R client library?

    Nope, that's fine.

    > The Jabber server?

    Yup.

    > Which server?

    The Java one, I think.

    > Or the architecture?

    Dunno about that.

    > critical remark

    Hm, didn't mean to be critical... just sharing experience.

    > a shameless plug for
    > your own unrelated product.

    It's not really a product, per se... I mean, it's open source and free.

    > What was your point, man?

    To share an experience with the Jabber server and offer a note on our workaround.

    > doing a design comparison between
    > Cougaar and Jabber?

    They're two different things - COUGAAR is a distributed agent architecture, Jabber is a messaging protocol. I'm not sure a comparison is really in order...

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