Archive for the 'Jabber' Category


JWChat 1.0

After releasing JSJaC and MUCkl today I’m proud to announce another long awaited release: JWChat v1.0. JWChat is a web based yet full fledged jabber client. It supports most modern browsers like MSIE 6 and 7, Firefox 2.x, Firefox 3.x, Opera, Safari and many more.
Just like meebo you can do instant messaging with a variety [...]

MUCkl 0.4.4 is out

A new release of MUCkl is available. MUCkl is a lightweight spin off project of JWChat. It offers web based access to Jabber/XMPP groupchats/conferences based on the MUC protocol without having to register for a jabber account (just enter your nickname and off you go!).
This release mainly fixes support for Firefox 3 plus some minor [...]

JSJaC v1.3.2 released

A new release of JSJaC is available. JSJaC is a jabber/xmpp library for web based clients written in JavaScript. It supports BOSH and HTTP Polling for connecting to a jabber server. This release mainly fixes issues with Firefox 3.

jabber services back online

Glad to announce that all core services of jwchat.org are back online now. If you’re still experiencing problems let me know!
jwchat.org is running on ejabberd-2.0.1 now. Amongst otherst this means you can dive deep into the world of refreshing PEP experience.
Also there is a new SSL certificate now. The old one had expired so I [...]

today: radio talk on openmicroblogging (in german)

Today I’ll be giving an interview to radio fsk, hamburg. The topic is about twitter and openmicroblogging. They’ll have Cem Basman from WhisperN News and Media (brokerz) at face and I’ll join later on to talk about the role of XMPP in the field of openmicroblogging. The live broadcast calls itself Nerdalert and will start [...]

twitterspy - a jabber/xmpp gateway to twitter

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 a [...]

Open-Birdcage Project

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 [...]

last steps towards jwchat-1.0 (and thoughts about what’s beyond)

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 [...]

xmpp and microblogging - let’s do it!

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 right [...]

JWChat’s homepage moved

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.