Year 2010 is going to be a great year for ProcessOne.
Thank you all for your ongoing support. Let's build the realtime web together !
For the latter feature, since the iPhone still does not accept to run applications in the background, if you want to use another application, you will have to shutdown your XMPP client and thus disconnect from Talkr.IM. With the Push feature enabled on your XMPP client (if this one supports Apple Push notifications), you can tell your contacts you are still online when you are using other applications. You will then automatically receive notifications of new messages. And when you re-open your XMPP client, you will receive these messages.
OneTeam for iPhone has the Apple Push feature enabled: you will be able to use it on you Talkr.IM account. Just use you Jabber ID, like username@talkr.im, and for a simple configuration, go to the "Settings" tab, then "Push settings".
The Talkr.IM XMPP server will stop at 10:00am CET. This means:
UPDATE: the Apple Push module is installed on Talkr.IM, and working fine. You can use it on OneTeam for iPhone. You can run a APNS module on your own ejabberd server with IMpush.
]]>This new exclusive feature on Talkr.IM XMPP server enables Jingle calls by providing a public service for media relaying. Basically, this means that XMPP clients which can handle Jingle Nodes, will be able to join other Jingle Nodes enabled clients to establish voice calls even when both are hidden behind network barriers (like NAT, for the techies).
One many entities of the XMPP federated network (clients, servers) will have Jingle Nodes enabled, this will be possible to establish calls, in a totally P2P manner, much like Skype, but with much more features like the control of who can use your relay. Read the Jingle Nodes website and the Jingle Nodes XEP to know more.
This Talkr.IM Jingle Nodes relay is one of the very first step to a simpler Jingle user experience worldwide.
Visit the Talkr.IM website, and create your own Talkr.IM XMPP account freely: https://www.talkr.im/signup.
]]>OneTeam 3.2.4 for iPhone had already fixed bug related to Multi-User Chats (also known as groupchats): in some cases, OneTeam used to crash on joining password-protected and members-only MUC.
OneTeam 3.2.5 for iPhone now allows OneTeam users to connect to the XMPP interface to Facebook chat. You can now connect with Jabber-ID set your "your_username@chat.facebook.com", and password set to your Facebook password.
Be careful, Facebook's XMPP chat interface does not offer MUC services, nor is federated, which means you still cannot chat with your friends on Talkr.IM or Google's Talk/GMail, but only with Facebook friends.
Check out OneTeam for iPhone on our website, as well as Apple's AppStore.
]]>The XMPP hackfest is the place where coders can code and test interop, while the XMPP Summit is more oriented towards specifications improving.
ProcessOne will be there and demo three of our software products:
Feel free to join, as we would like to show you our software, and we would like to have your opinion on these.
]]>I felt this was for me a large deterrent for using it and quite paradoxical in a real-time web world.
To solve this problem and benefit from the largely used XMPP protocol for notification, I wrote a Google Wave gateway. For now, it is quite raw because it relies on GWT client protocol and lacks any mechanism from Google to do delegated authentication. However, we are going to implement a more standard client protocol and delegated authentication as Google makes those features available.
Anyway, here is a small demo of how to use it to give you an idea of the user experience.
It is deployed on talkr.IM server, so you can give it a try.
Enjoy!
]]>Year 2010 is going to be a great year for ProcessOne.
Thank you all for your ongoing support. Let's build the realtime web together !
The API of exmpp 0.9.2 is considered to be stable, so there aren't any
major changes expected in the API before reaching 1.0.0.
exmpp home page:
http://exmpp.org/
Download exmpp 0.9.2 source code package from:
http://download.process-one.net/exmpp/
You can also check the ProcessOne Labs page:
http://www.process-one.net/en/labs/
Check the Release Notes for a more complete list of changes:
http://www.process-one.net/en/ejabberd/release_notes/release_note_ejabberd_2.1.1
If you upgrade from ejabberd 2.0.5 or older, read carefully the release notes, because there were several changes in the installation path and the configuration options.
The list of solved tickets since 2.1.0 is available on ProcessOne bug tracker:
http://redir.process-one.net/ejabberd-2.1.1
ejabberd 2.1.1 is available as source code package and binary installers for Linux 32 bits, 64 bits, Mac OS X Intel, and Windows:
http://www.process-one.net/en/ejabberd/downloads
What real time search start-ups do is "real time filtering". They plug into various streams of data from one end. They use your query term to filter this incoming stream and finally add new matching content to your result page. No doubt, this is filtering a stream of new data, this time the present, not the past.
Why does it matter? Because real time search and real time filtering do not compete but complement each other. You cannot say real time filtering start-ups compete with Google. They provide a different service satisfying different needs, which is to get instant and fresh data, filtered out of massive streams.
Google understands this. They recently decided to add real-time news results to their search results page, when configured with the right options. Basically, you switch to a mode where the latest results are relevant to you personally. That way, new real-time sources matching your current search will get through the filter to update your search results in real-time.
Where does this lead? What Google proposes is only the beginning. It is done in a robust but still awkward way. The organisation is moving toward a deep integration between the history (existing data, the past) and real time content (new data, the present), to help you make accurate decisions based on the latest events. That's information-augmented reality. That's web-augmented reality.
At ProcessOne, we call this Web Augmented Reality or WAR. This is a carefully crafted blend of historical data with new relevant data. You have the reality (what has happened), and this is enriched with new sources of information, updated and filtered in real time.
As defined by Wikipedia, Augmented Reality (AR) is a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment, whose elements are merged with (or augmented by) virtual computer-generated imagery, creating a mixed reality.
Web Augmented Reality is the same concept, but applied to data as the initial information source, instead of imagery. This data is then supplemented with new sources of information which are filtered and updated, an finally added to the base of existing data, with an overlay.
Web, Web 2.0, real-time web... These are just different stages of evolution that are masking the true underlying movement which is WAR and the browser playing an increasingly important role in communications. This evolution will be of real benefit to the user who will be able to communicate and collaborate in ‘true’ real-time. What this will mean and what it will enable will begin to become clear in 2010.
Would you like to get involved in further discussion about the real time web and collaboration? This topic will be discussed in Paris on December17th, in the first ProcessOne "Sea Beyond" event! We will demo labs products implementing the concept of WAR aka Web Augmented Reality.
]]>Tomorrow will take place the first SeaBeyond event, by ProcessOne, on real-time communications.
The very first SeaBeyond event will be cut in two parts.
In the first part of the day, the XMPP Sandbox, developpers will enjoy experimenting new features.
In the second part of the day, the Lighthouse, there will be presentations on new an upcoming technologies.
First, lightning talks will take place: these are 10 minutes talks, briefly presenting products:
Then, the presentations will introduce new technologies:
BBC has adapted its service to broadcast these short messages, this time on IP from the server to the browser. They have chosen the publish and broadcast mechanism described in the PubSub XMPP specification (XEP-0060), as well as the BOSH connection method (XEP-0124 and XEP-0206). The ProcessOne's ejabberd server provides the core architecture component to this innovative service.
The BBC radio labs blogs has a detailed article explaining their choices, like a open protocol, a wide choice of available implementations, and a strong wish to give back to the community.
You can access the BBC radio 1 here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/
]]>We made sure that OneWeb would work in Firefox mobile (aka Fennec). User interface had to be adapted to support the mobile version. The feature set is the same than the one of OneWeb for desktop.
We have tested OneWeb in many places to ensure it works in all these environment with the same code base: in Firefox on the desktop, in Firefox mobile on Maemo SDK and in Firefox mobile on a real Nokia N900 phone. Yes, we manage to package it to use the same code base in all environments. It is a challenge, because as you see the user interface is quite different and clearly well integrated into Firefox mobile.
Here are a few screenshots taken from a Nokia device:
OneWeb notification and panel icon:
Share and unshare page icon:
Configuration panel:
Command panel:
Show all received bookmarks:
Show new received bookmarks
Execute a command on your desktop browser (The reverse is also possible, but not shown here):
Typing a search command in bookmarks on a remote browser:
The result of the search on a remote browser:
We also took the opportunity of the release of OneWeb for Firefox mobile to publish the code on Github: OneWeb source code.
OneWeb is still an experimentation. Your comments feedback and contributions are welcome!
]]>We prepared several channels with IT articles, World headlines and ProcessOne messages, and soon you will be able to add your own channels to the collection. Since OneChannel is released as a public beta, please give us feedback and suggestions.
Note that most channels currently are coming from RSS, so the update interval is the one of the RSS polling. However, we will start pushing content directly in PubSub in the future.
We have build this client because we think PubSub is underused in the XMPP community and in the real-time web in general. This will allow the community to be able to use a client as a reference and basis to accelerate PubSub adoption.
For now, the client is able to render Atom or HTML payload (including embedded Flash objects like YouTube videos) only, but we plan to add new supported payload in the future.
To start testing, you just need a free account on the XMPP Sandbox, and the latest Adobe AIR Framework installed (available for Windows, Mac and Linux).
To download the PubSub client and learn more, go to OneChannel website.
XMPP stands for eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol. The protocol is mostly known as an Instant Messaging protocol, but it has actually been designed as a generic messaging protocol that can do much more that chat. OneWeb Firefox extension demonstrates a small part of what you can do when you integrate XMPP by design into the browser behaviour.
Note that this is an early alpha version developed in a few days to demonstrate our purpose. There is still room for many improvements and contributions are of course welcome.
OneWeb alpha version is able to do the following:
The module can be downloaded from ProcessOne Labs.
Code source is available on ProcessOne Labs.
You need an XMPP account to test this software but you can get a development XMPP account for free on our XMPP Sandbox.
Update: We recommand you to use the XMPP Sandbox for ease of use. Your XMPP server needs supports for Pubsub and PEP which is not a common feature.
]]>So, the XMPP Sandbox is now open as a beta service. Start playing with it, developers! Give us your feedback as many improvements are planned in the coming months!
For feedback and discussions, the XMPP Sandbox forum is open. You can also follow xmppsandbox on Twitter to share your feedback and feature request and get notified of changes.
For developers that can be in Paris on the 17th of december 2009, you can also join the "real life" developer sandbox during the SeaBeyond event.
Welcome in the sandbox and build amazing things!
