Comments on: Facebook annoints XMPP, open IM endgame in sight.

By: Facebook and XMPP: Old News is Old at Ameliorations 1.0

Facebook and XMPP: Old News is Old at Ameliorations 1.0 — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:32:01 +0000

[...] that because, as I was looking up information on this change, I discovered at least two articles (here and here) that are over a year old, posted 14 May 2008 and 17 January 2008 respectively. The only [...]

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:22:50 +0000

See, my contacts are completely different.

I've got 0 MSN, 4 ICQ, 10 Skype and 20 XMPP. The funniest thing is that the ICQ contacts are all Mac users using iChat.

However, of those 20, I've got 2 on their own servers (1 is outsourced to Google), 4 on jabber.org, 6 on the corporate server and 8 on GTalk.

XMPP provides scalability? Who said that? XMPP is a protocol. It makes no claims or recommendations on how to structure the back end for scalability.

By: Dean Collins

Dean Collins — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:29:27 +0000

Alec,

XMPP sounds like the saviour to all IM based applications but have you ever looked for a developer with experience in this space?

I’m thinking of investing in a topic based web chat application and was originally looking 3-4 months ago at flash based applications.

Everyone is saying No No No you must build in XMPP to get scalability – “it the best thing since sliced bread” etc etc.

So I thought ok fine, might cost a little more to have developed as specialist area but I’m not looking for anything too amazing just a simple proof of concept with the ability to scale out later as required.

For 3 months now I’ve been trying to find someone anyone who has developed a working application in XMPP, or at least someone who knows something more than “yeh I’ve read about it”.

Lets just say it’s mighty thin on the ground out there.

Cheers,
Dean Collins
http://www.Cognation.net