geek ramblings » Jabber http://dougal.gunters.org Random musings of a Southern geek Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:24:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.2-alpha en JSF Member http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2003/01/30/jsf-member http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2003/01/30/jsf-member#comments Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:21:45 +0000 Dougal //?p= A few weeks ago, I applied for membership with the Jabber Software Foundation. The vote for new members was yesterday, and all 17 people up for membership were voted in as new JSF Members.

The responsibilities are pretty light — particpate in the jabber mailing lists, evangalize Jabber technology, and participate in the quarterly meetings. [...]

]]> A few weeks ago, I applied for membership with the Jabber Software Foundation. The vote for new members was yesterday, and all 17 people up for membership were voted in as new JSF Members.

The responsibilities are pretty light — particpate in the jabber mailing lists, evangalize Jabber technology, and participate in the quarterly meetings. I was already doing the first two, and it’s no big deal to spend my lunch hour online for the meetings once in a while. And eventually I hope to actually contribute something interesting to the community. JabFoaf is at least something, but it only appeals to a very small portion of the community.

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]]> http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2003/01/30/jsf-member/feed The Conversational Web http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2003/01/28/the-conversational-web http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2003/01/28/the-conversational-web#comments Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:57:55 +0000 Dougal //?p= A lot of blog development of late has been directed towards establishing connections between multiple weblogs via mechanisms such as Trackback, Pingback, and friends. Throw in a little RSS and a news aggregator that can tell you where to go to comment on an article. [...]

]]> A lot of blog development of late has been directed towards establishing connections between multiple weblogs via mechanisms such as Trackback, Pingback, and friends. Throw in a little RSS and a news aggregator that can tell you where to go to comment on an article. Maybe add a dash of FOAF…. The result is that multiple websites become part of one big conversation.

Well, if it’s a conversation, how about we add a splash of Instant Messaging? Yum. Now we’re cooking!

A couple of days ago, I whipped a quick mod for this site that will notify me via Jabber when a new comment is posted. I’ve got an idea in the back of my brain for setting up a Jabber PubSub component that would let people subscribe themselves to the comments of a particular story. Since not everybody uses Jabber, I figure there will need to be an email notification option, as well. I haven’t had the time to work out the details yet, let alone start any code. Heck, I’ve been typing this entry off-and-on over the last 24+ hours, as it is.

And this is the point where I wish I had already recoded my Trackback implementation to handle autodiscovery and multiple trackbacks.

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]]> http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2003/01/28/the-conversational-web/feed More Mapping Goodness http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2003/01/08/more-mapping-goodness http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2003/01/08/more-mapping-goodness#comments Wed, 08 Jan 2003 16:37:13 +0000 Dougal //?p= Yesterday was just full of map references. Another cool thing I found out about is the Jabber World Map. If you are a Jabber user, you can register with the map notifier, and your status will show up on the map. [...]

]]> Yesterday was just full of map references. Another cool thing I found out about is the Jabber World Map. If you are a Jabber user, you can register with the map notifier, and your status will show up on the map. You’ll have to email your location name and lat/long coords to the administrator (instructions are at the bottom of the web page, below the map).

I’ll probably hack some Jabber features into my blog one of these days. At the very least, I could easily add a status indicator to show if I’m offline, away, available, etc. I also want to come up with some more ways to cross-pollinate Jabber with FOAF. My JabFoaf project helps get FOAF data out of Jabber. Now I want to do something to get FOAF into Jabber. I’m just not sure exactly how I want to do it, yet.

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]]> http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2003/01/08/more-mapping-goodness/feed Noticed http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2002/12/27/noticed http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2002/12/27/noticed#comments Fri, 27 Dec 2002 18:58:08 +0000 Dougal //?p= I was starting to think that nobody noticed my JabFoaf announcment. On the one hand, I figured that a lot of people are too busy with holiday travelling/relaxing to worry about FOAF. [...]

]]> I was starting to think that nobody noticed my JabFoaf announcment. On the one hand, I figured that a lot of people are too busy with holiday travelling/relaxing to worry about FOAF. But on the other hand, I was a little disappointed that I wasn’t getting much feedback.

But as it turned out, some people noticed, after all.

I really need to get TrackBack and/or PingBack working on my blog, so I can learn about links like this more easily….

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]]> http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2002/12/27/noticed/feed Announcing: JabFoaf http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2002/12/20/announcing-jabfoaf http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2002/12/20/announcing-jabfoaf#comments Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:09:43 +0000 Dougal //?p= Over the past few weeks, I’ve had a couple of different FOAF-related projects wandering around the back of my brain. [...]

]]> Over the past few weeks, I’ve had a couple of different FOAF-related projects wandering around the back of my brain. I’m finally ready to announce the first one: JabFoaf: Jabber/FOAF conversion utilities. Since Jabber and FOAF are both aimed at connecting people (one literally, the other semantically), it just seemed like a natural thing to do.

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