On April 8, Microsoft will discontinue its Windows Messenger service. All current users will be switched to Skype. The Free Software Foundation Europe advises former users of Windows Messenger to take this as an opportunity to embrace Open Standards such as Jabber (XMPP) instead of switching to Skype.
Read more »Avoid being locked in as Microsoft turns off Windows Messenger
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What's wrong with proprietary IM (ICQ, AIM, YIM, MSN/WLM)
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Matija Šukle writes: "Exactly three months ago I wrote that I'm migrating to XMPP/Jabber and slowly leaving all proprietary IM protocols. In that blog post is also an example message I'm leaving my contacts why I'm doing it."
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Asterisk Call Notification over XMPP
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Recently I was asked how I get notification messages when a call is made to my VoIP number and extension. It’s only a few lines of configuration, but worth noting down for future reference. This all applies to Asterisk 1.4, on Debian Lenny
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emacs-jabber 0.7.92 released
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"A new pretest release of jabber.el, the Emacs Jabber client, is now available....
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Jabbim (Jabber/XMPP client) Weekly News I
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It's been quite some time since we released 0.4 (although the blogpost was a bit delayed) and naturally we've been working hard on Jabbim's next release. Please take a look at a short list of features you might expect when 0.5 is ready. And if you're not afraid of experimental software that may eat you children and rape your refridgerator, you can also try SVN version for yourself.
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Jabbim 0.4: Better than we expected
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It took us five months and about 30 thousand lines of code to complete Jabbim 0.4 „VELES“. But the effort was worth it. Jabbim 0.4 can now honestly be called one of the best XMPP/Jabber clients out there.
Read more »Review: Jabbering With Emacs
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"...Though there are a number of IM options for Emacs, one that works particularly well with minimal fuss is Jabber.el, a robust and configurable Jabber client that supports basic Jabber/XMPP and multi-user chat. You can download it from the project's Sourceforge page ..."
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Support Free Software? Then Ditch Proprietary IM
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"There are a few things that I find ironic about most Free Software geeks. They’ll support the philosophy of GNU and Free Software until the cows come home, but they’ll continue to chat with their buddies over proprietary IM protocols, such as MSN, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, Gadu Gadu, Skype and more. Well, it’s time to ditch the legacy IM protocols in favor of Open Standards, such as IRC, XMPP/Jabber, SIP/SIMPLE and others..."
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