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December 08, 2006
Wildfire and Spark IM
We've been doing some testing of Jive Software's open-source Wildfire IM server and Spark IM client. We're pretty impressed with what we've seen so far. It does federated XMPP pretty much right out of the box, and there's a plugin that allows gatewaying to other IM services (AIM, MSN, Yahoo, etc.). Now, it currently doesn't have voice chat like Oracle RTC does, but Jive has indicated that a libjingle-based implementation is coming, and support for using Asterisk to implement voice is already out there and integration with Cisco's CallManager 5 may be possible too.
Also, we're looking for people who may want to beta test this - if you're interested, comment here, send me an e-mail, or heck, Meebo Me from the front page of my blog.
I'm also looking at Claros Chat as a kind of web-based IM client. Is there any interest in this? Or perhaps there are other alternatives out there?
Update: Since implementing the new IM system, I've discontinued my MeeboMe widget in favor of Wildfire's Presence plugin and an XMPP URL.
Posted by sdh7 at December 8, 2006 11:47 AM
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Also, we're looking for people who may want to beta test this - if you're interested, comment here, send me an e-mail, or heck, Meebo Me from the front page of my blog.Not exactly MeeboMe from your front page. I am sure the Meebo people would not appreciate this misdirection.
Posted by: Anonymous at January 3, 2007 07:41 AM
Well, this was written when I still had a MeeboMe widget on my frontpage. I've edited the entry to indicate the change. Better?
Posted by: sdh7 at January 3, 2007 11:00 AM