![]() ![]() To enable this, Google Talk uses the standard XMPP protocol for authentication, presence, and messaging," Google officials wrote in the Google Talk release notes. "We want to encourage the developer community to create new and innovative applications that leverage our service. Antepo's product has native support for both SIP/SIMPLE and XMPP.Īlthough the Google Talk offering is aimed at consumers, the fact that it is based on the XMPP protocol encourages developers of all stripes to jump in. In addition, this week enterprise IM vendor Antepo launched secure federation with users on the AIM network through its OPN System XT, an updated version of its server-based IM software. Earlier this year AOL unveiled its Enterprise Federation Partner program, designed to allow select enterprise IM systems to add AIM and ICQ users to their IM contact lists and send and receive messages. AIM is the largest of the public networks with 41.6 million subscribers. Meanwhile, public IM networks such as those from AOL, Yahoo, and MSN have closely guarded their subscribers and shied away from standards, although some have taken small steps at interoperability through individual agreements aimed at corporate users.įor example, AOL has established agreements between its AIM network and select vendors. The company has said it is committed to enabling open communications, and selecting an open, XML-based protocol for its IM service is a step in that direction. ![]() Google's choice to base its Google Talk IM on XMPP shakes up this landscape considerably. XMPP last year received official IETF ratification, while SIMPLE is still trudging through development in the IETF. On one side, heavyweights Microsoft and IBM lined up behind SIP and SIMPLE, while XMPP gained traction with Jabber and implementations at companies including Apple, HP, and France Telecom. At the time, two fledgling IM protocols were making their way through the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standardization process: SIMPLE, based on the SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) telephony protocol, and XMPP, based on XML.Īlthough a standards push among public IM networks never quite got off the ground, corporate vendors started taking sides. When instant messaging started to surge in popularity a few years ago, a hot-button issue crept up around IM standards. The decision to base Google Talk on the XML-based XMPP framework - combined with Google's considerable market clout - could shake up stalled IM interoperability efforts, or at the very least gives a big lift to a grassroots Internet standard. I believe it was a port of pidgin/libpurple to cocoa/aqua (or whatever the macOS gui framework was back then).Google's entry this week into the IM space gave a high-profile shot in the arm to the open IM protocol XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol). > there was also some Duck app for macOS? You are thinking of Adium (). It was fast and memory friendly given that it was a native app and the themes were just small templates offering. It was built with native widgets and also incorporated chat themes that were implemented using WebKit's rendering (). I really miss Adium () which was based on Pidgin's libpurple. (or at least it has been at one point, don't know what the current status is.) XMPP continues to also work with Adium, a multi-protocol chat app that's completely customizable (visuals + sounds). XMPP is a technology, actually used by many other services such as Facebook chat. It's so old, it still has growl (old 3rd party macOS notification system before. Is written in Objective-C, containing no Swift code whatsoever. I love classic IM apps, and I want to give the macOS instant messaging app " Adium" a complete rejuvenation for Apple Silicon because it's last update was over 5 years ago and I've needed a good XMPP client for Mac because I've started using it. ![]() Is Beeper like the once super-messaging app Adium? Do Beeper not use Apple's iCloud App-Password? Can one not just download and use Beeper without creating an account? 1.
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