NotesProgramming a chat bot was once the domain of the hardcore hacker tapping packets as they passed over the wire from proprietary client applications to closed source servers, but not any more!FeedUnfurl
Notes"Hemlock is an open-source framework that combines the richness of Flash with the scalability of XMPP, facilitating a new class of web applications where multiple users can interact in real time. Games, workspace collaboration, educational tools… The only limit is your imagination."Unfurl
Notes"Excla.im was built in two parts. The first was the Google App Engine app to control account information and access. The second is a python jabber bot that uses an API exposed by the GAE app."Unfurl
Notes"The Jabber/XMPP protocol and PubSub extension offer a Web scale, standards based, and increasingly popular way to build stream oriented web services."Unfurl
Notes"Openfire (formerly Wildfire) is a real time collaboration (RTC) server dual-licensed under the Open Source GPL and commercially. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber)."Unfurl
Notes"This is an event-driven Jabber client class implementation, allowing your script to connect to and interact with Jabber (XMPP) servers. This script was originally based on class.jabber.php, but has been almost completely rewritten (with permission fromUnfurl
Notes"A browser connector that provides rich user-to-user communication and interaction to web applications, in real-time and without server hacks."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"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
Notes"Unfortunately, not many news sources publish their news via Jabber publish-subscribe. In comes the Mimír aggregator, a component that polls the news from legacy news sources."Unfurl