Today I decided to give twitterspy a try in order to get rid of a dedicated twitter client that wastes space and resources on my desktop. Twitterspy is a jabber bot that sits in your roster and forwards messages to twitter back and forth. As it’s still missing some helpful documentation on howto setup such [...]

As my last post on XMPP and microblogging has gathered lots of attention I thought it might be a good idea to establish a place for collecting all of the informations on the topic and coordinate further steps. Thus I’ve setup a trac environment at http://open-birdcage.com. I’ve already started linking articles and insightful discussions related [...]

Currently I’m preparing for the long awaited release of JWChat v1.0. I haven’t been working on it for a long time now (2-3 years) and all I want to do is to fix some remaining issues, do some compatibility tests and that’s it. So if you know of some things you think they should urgently [...]

As many others I’ve been thinking a lot about how to establish a decentralised microblogging service based on XMPP. Somehow I’m not really happy with all of the current approaches. While laconica (just like noserub) is not based on XMPP and thus misses the point completely (as not being a near-real-time application) rabbiter takes the [...]

Another short note: Just finished moving all the content previously hosted at http://jwchat.sourceforge.net to this blog as http://blog.jwchat.org/jwchat/. Hope this will make it easier for me to maintain content and keep you up2date.

Today I moved my blog away from IN-Berlin e.V. to my own server as I got frustrated by all those wordpress upgrades necessary lately. So maybe you might want to update your bookmarks. The new location is http://blog.jwchat.org. On my private server I’m hosting debian’s default wordpress package which should get security updates automatically, thus [...]