Presence and IntComm WG

["Callahan, Tim" <>]

Thanks Darian, that's good to know.  I recall Google also had some 
integration issues when putting their chat into iGoogle pages, and I think 
even that was a trimmed down version of the standard (but I have no 
references for that statement right now...)
I would be disappointed - but not surprised - if they did their own thing.

We are "edu" - thread hijacking is expected! 


(Now to hijack my own thread with news that came out since my first message)

Apple "geolocation" will certainly go hand in hand with geo-presence:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10157758-37.html?tag=mncol
Report: Apple Snow Leopard takes swipe at location, multi-touch features

That's two geolocation announcements by major players this week - (perhaps 
this is a budding industry/time to invest...?) 
-Tim

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From: Darian Anthony Patrick 
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Subject: Re: [wg-pic] iPhone + Jabber + Groupchat? not yet, but..

Neal McBurnett wrote:
> Google uses the open source smack api and library for their client on
> android, and some smack folks have put up their own instructions on
> writing client code with smack:
> 
>  
> http://davanum.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/android-just-use-smack-api-for-xmpp/
> 
> And smack seems to support muc
> 
>  
> http://www.igniterealtime.org/builds/smack/docs/latest/javadoc/org/jivesoftware/smackx/muc/MultiUserChat.html
> 
> so it may not be long before some good clients are out there.

Last year there were rumblings that Google was moving away from XMPP to
a binary protocol, which they felt was more mobile device-friendly.
Here is one post on the topic, from someone who welcomes the change:

http://www.simplicidade.org/notes/archives/2008/02/android_xmpp_an.html

Sorry to hijack the thread (sort of).

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