If there would exists a "Jabber Innovation Award 2007" I would definitely give it to Silicon Valley-based Meebo. Their platform, built on top of libgaim and jabber, offers the following things currently:
- Online Presence / chat widget embeddable at webpages
- Web interface and desktop client support for jabber (your account is user@meebo.org)
- Ad-hoc groupchat functions accessible from any network (through web interface) - most possibly based on MUC
- Embeddable groupchat (MUC) for webpages
- Media-recognition (youtube links are added to a media pool in a groupchat)
- Web-based filesending abilities, even for groupchat
- Platform-independent web-based plugin capabilities, including:
- Voice and videochat support with any users on any network
Pretty awesome list, isn't it?
I recommend to try it for yourself, as I said above, registering a meebo user means effectively having a jabber address - using other systems happen through gaim.
While we're trying to push out new XEPs, they realized two things:
- Web is the platform you should build on, because it's independent from nearly everything, yet quite popular
- If you have a disadvantage (being a browser-based client it isn't fashionable for geeks) you better start to innovate.
- Even if you're based on jabber, you should make sure protocol does not matter: it's the client which does the user experience
If we could only ask them, how they achieved this, and how we could make this a common knowledge of humanity and ourselves!
(The author still dreams of having an open meebo platform-like solution for desktop clients too through standardizing and WebKit/Gecko/CHtmlView)
4 comments:
Come on... This is the same group that has broken Jabber MUC in their web GUI for the past 6 months with the addition of their 'chatrooms'.
Thanks for such a great post and the review, I am totally impressed! Keep stuff like this coming.
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that is a good application I have used it for a couple of days and I have to congratulate Meebo team for this app! the only thing that Meebo has not done is Sildenafil Citrate if they manage to do it, they would be the best!
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