Yet another large player has decided to embrace Jabber. LiveJournal is integrating Jabber into their system (stpeter), which means that every LiveJournal user now has a Jabber account (although it’s still being tested). In addition to straight chat, it will also allow users to post new entries via Jabber, as well as to receive notifications of new posts via Jabber. It’s nice to see that they’re not only supporting Jabber, but also trying out new things with it.
LiveJournal also supports OpenID, an open identification system (so that you can sign into sites that support OpenID, you don’t have to fill in yet another registration form, or worry about your username being already taken). So if anyone is interested in starting a blog, I’d recommend LiveJournal over something like Blogger.
The LiveJournal folks have also implemented their own Jabber server, written in ... Perl?! It seems like a pretty neat system (despite the Perl) — everything is implemented as a module, which should make it pretty flexible.
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xa: (Not available as a result of being idle more than 15 min) (/laptop)