Skype is proprietary, uses a proprietary protocol and has taken extreme measures to obfuscate their traffic and functioning of their program. And the Linux version is just horrible in every way possible.
It says on the "Public XMPP Services" page that it's just a list of servers that have been registered. I do think most XMPP deployments have enabled talking to other servers (aka federation).
Spectrum is an server component that acts as a gateway to other networks (MSN, ICQ, AIM etc), so contacts on those networks appears as regular jabber contacts. You do need an account on those networks thou. It's pretty much server side Pidgin, same backend at least.
I would like to see something like this, except as a file system layer similar to unionfs that does copy-on-read from some other place (network, slow usb hdd etc) , and purges or keeps files (based on popularity) when the place it caches to gets full.
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People also forget that it wasn't ICANN that let ICE seize those domains, it was VeriSign, who administers the .com domain.
yes, caps uses more zeros, which anyone can clearly see are fatter, thereby clogging up the tubes!
what's the status of voip over jabber?
Jingle works fine and is supported by a couple of clients, including Pidgin, Empathy, Gajim and Google Talk.
Skype is proprietary, uses a proprietary protocol and has taken extreme measures to obfuscate their traffic and functioning of their program. And the Linux version is just horrible in every way possible.
OneSocialWeb is a bunch of extensions to XMPP and some implementations of them that pretty much makes it into the distributed facebook TFA wants.
To say that XMPP has failed to take of would be like saying that about Linux around 1995.
It says on the "Public XMPP Services" page that it's just a list of servers that have been registered. I do think most XMPP deployments have enabled talking to other servers (aka federation).
Spectrum is an server component that acts as a gateway to other networks (MSN, ICQ, AIM etc), so contacts on those networks appears as regular jabber contacts. You do need an account on those networks thou. It's pretty much server side Pidgin, same backend at least.
So, do Jabber servers all talk to each other like email servers?
They do actually.
I thought that was the last bit of the equation that didn't take off....I know all ISPs run email servers, but few-to-none run XMPP servers...
There's a bunch. And GTalk is Jabber. .. yet.
And there's Facebook chat, but it doesn't talk to other servers
And you can run your own if you want. Which I do, and I can can talk to people on MSN (and other networks if I had contacts on those).
Currently there's only a OSW-plugin for one of the server implementations, but that will probably come.
Jabber/XMPP works terrific, thanks for asking! And OneSocialWeb is exactly what TFA is asking for!
Add http://onesocialweb.org/ and you have status updates and privacy control too!
I would like to see something like this, except as a file system layer similar to unionfs that does copy-on-read from some other place (network, slow usb hdd etc) , and purges or keeps files (based on popularity) when the place it caches to gets full.
Like vimperator?
m/([bd]?a|t?c|[kz])?sh/
Why not?
Sandboxed dalvik-java aka Android is overrated