Jabber, Inc. and the XMPP Community is now available as an archived presentation and a podcast.

In this webinar, Peter Saint-Andre, Chair of the XMPP Council, Oren Avissar, Director of Engineering, ooVoo and Joe Hildebrand, CTO, Jabber, Inc. join me in discussing:

• The history of Jabber/XMPP and Jabber, Inc.
• The XMPP Community and its governance process
• ooVoo’s presence-enabled multi-user video and voice communications service and other applications of Jabber XCP

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Joe Hildebrand, our CTO, recently wrapped up a column for the January edition of SIP Magazine. I won’t give away the article, but one element dealt with the fact that people and machines don’t speak the same language.

It reminded me of a trip to China not that long ago and the chuckles we got from some of the English translations on outdoor signs. We understood their meaning even as they lacked precision, and that is the point:

We knew they meant take caution around the riverbank. Conversely, a machine would have tried to gently dump itself into the river.

Filament(n) [http://www.answers.com/filament]: Thin thread of carbon or tungsten which produces heat or light with the passage of current.

The universal symbol for the Jabber protocol is a light bulb. Jabber.org and Jabber, Inc. use stylized versions of a light bulb as logos and as icons to represent presence. We’ve named this blog “Filaments” because we will be discussing topics at the core of presence.

This is the first entry of an open conversation about any and all of the many strands of individual and system presence. Check this space regularly for discussions on how presence is and can be embedded within applications, devices, and systems as thin strands of information that together weave a richer and more real-time experience.

Please join the discussion.