Notes"The IMified platform makes it amazingly easy to connect your existing applications to instant messaging networks or create stand alone IM bots for fun or getting work done. "Unfurl
Notes"Popular online activity-monitoring service FriendFeed just announced IM integration and the way they implemented it is really smart. I'm now getting an IM every time someone comments on one of my items in FriendFeed, and I can reply with a comment on that very same item from inside my IM client. It's a great way to keep on top of conversations and keep them flowing. "Unfurl
Notes"Open AIM continues to lead the way with providing the most powerful and flexible platform to power your communication, collaboration, and social networking experiences. "Unfurl
Notes"So I ran to write a bot that would make use of the oh-so-beautifully-simple Prologue interface combined with its WordPress goodness (read “available XML-RPC, tagging, easy to deploy, includes an admin interface, out-of-the-box!”) and give me the TwitUnfurl
Notes"Like Twitter, Meshly is an instant blogging application, like del.icio.us it is about saving links, and it has a voting component that closely resembles digg."Unfurl
Notes"5 years from now, Grid services that are not already on Web will be based on instant messaging, and XMPP/Atom/RDF will be the key Grid transfer protocols and formats."Unfurl
NotesI totally hadn't heard about this Jabber server! 'your existing MeFi login (you might need to add "@metafilter.com" in your username field, depending on the jabber client)'Unfurl
NotesHo-lee shit. This excites me orders of magnitude more than GTalk. "A lot of you have noticed that we wrote a Jabber server, djabberd, and thus it should come as no surprise that we're launching a LiveJournal-integrated Jabber service."Unfurl
Notes"MAKEbot is an Instant Message bot you can talk to and get the latest news, "pings", photos, bookmarks, projects, audio/video and more from MAKE from any computer or your phone!"Unfurl
Notes"The TOC2 protocol is an updated version of the TOC protocol, or "Talk to OSCAR" protocol. Its existence was never documented by AOL and it is only used in a few AOL Instant Messenger clients."Unfurl
Notes"As it stands now (the day the beta launched), Google Talk speaks the Jabber protocol but it doesn't enable the server to server (S2S) communication."Unfurl