Presence and IntComm WG

[Jesse Thompson <>]

I've tried it on an ipod touch.  It works well.  Although I think that
the Meebo client is better.

Since this is a web app (like Meebo) users will have to give this 3rd
party their username and password.

Jesse

Callahan, Tim wrote:
> Found the iPhone/Jabber article I referenced:
> First Look video: JiveTalk mobile IM
> http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13549_7-9980926-30.html
> Free for iPhone / touch, purchase for BlackBerry
> - Supports multiple conversations
> - supports Jabber, Google Talk, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live,
> Myspace IM
> - Works on WiFi or cellular data
> * I don't see support for rooms
> 
> On the beejive page, there's a beta for WinMobile(6 only) and iPhone and
> iPod Touch; a free trial for BlackBerry
> http://www.beejive.com/ 
> 
> Haven't tried it out yet, but looks promising.
> -Tim
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Callahan, Tim 
> [mailto:]
>  
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:32 PM
> To: 
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> Subject: [wg-pic] XMPP news items
> 
> I was searching for a recent article about jabber availability on the
> iPhone - which I can't forward because I can't find it again - but ran
> across these articles of interest in the process:
> 
> Yahoo's encouraging words for IM standards
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9984673-93.html?tag=bl 
> Google became a major partner in a search-ad deal with Yahoo announced
> in June. A sidelight to the deal was one line saying the companies would
> make their IM services interoperable...
> ... used the open XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol)
> standard for instant messaging. It's this standard that Dietzen
> apparently sees playing a broader role at Yahoo.
> ...Yahoo opted to use XMPP in its Yahoo Live experimental video service,
> according to Process One, a Parisian company that sells XMPP-based IM
> server software using the open-source ejabberd software.
> 
> 
> 
> How safe is instant messaging? A security and privacy survey
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9962106-38.html?tag=bl 
> Service providers AOL, Yahoo, Google, etc were surveyed - see the
> results 
> -Tim

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