I'm now wondering if that is quite possibly the worst title I have ever come up with... I think it is. But its been a long day and I'm too tired to care at this point so please ignore my sad attempt at trying to make some sort of analogy about something or other... When I have a few hours sleep in me, and If I think of a better title instead, I'll change it.
In the mean time...
oh, before I copy and paste that in I should note that it was about two months ago that Uche got me REALLY turned on to XMPP as he felt it made a lot of sense in regards to developing LLUP-based solutions that when tied together (XMPP = Jabber by-the-way), gets us nearly 99% of the way to the end goal utlilizing existing open source and open standards...
That Uche I tell ya... He definitely knows a thing or two when it comes to... hmmm... is there anything Uche doesnt know a thing or two about... I'm trying to think of at least one, and I can't.
Well, while I ponder the "Is there anything he doesn't understand" question, this is from the above link...
4. What other communication services will you federate with? We look forward to federating with any service provider who shares our belief in enabling user choice and open communications. We do believe, however, that it is important to balance openness with ensuring that we maintain a safe and reliable service that protects user privacy and blocks spam and other abuses. We are using the federation opportunity with EarthLink and Sipphone to develop a set of guidelines by which all members of the federated network can work together to ensure that we protect our users while maximizing the reach of the network. We are also eager to hear from other people in the industry about how best to build a federation model that is open, scalable, and ensures best-in-class user experiences. If you have thoughts on federation or suggestions for how we can better enable open communications, please share them with us at the Google Talk Interoperability Google Group.
Want to hear my favorite part again (or read it if you happen to be reading this instead of piping it through your speak and spell like I am... um, like I am... ummm. oh, like I am not presently doing anything of the sort (phew... that one nearly broke me... lucky for me I pulled out the X factor and put it to good use at the last second... otherwise, well, I would rather not talk about the otherwise... lets just get on to my favorite part of the above:
If you have thoughts on federation or suggestions for how we can better enable open communications, please share them with us at the Google Talk Interoperability Google Group.
While you have that door and window open Google, I've got myself and a couple friends who'd like to pay you a visit if you dont mind to discuss a few open source and open standard extensions for Atom and RSS-based data feeds that I think you might find REALLLLLLLLYYYY interesting. I assure you it will be worth every bit of your time! You can expect contact from me in the next 24 hours.:D
Guess what about? :)
Cheers :)
More will be added soon.