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XMPP Roundup: Articles, talks and events
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Cabulous

Jack Moffitt has interviewed Elijah Windsor, the lead developer of Cabulous, an iPhone application based on XMPP that enables communication and geolocation of taxis and their passengers.

Apple Notification Server = Idavoll

Ralph Meijer noticed that the Apple Notification Server delivered with Mac OS X 10.6 Server is in fact Idavoll, the PubSub server written in Python.

PubSub vs MUC

Jack Moffitt again, wrote an article comparing Pubsub to Multi-User Chat. Spoiler: there is no winner, but clear insights.

Jabber FAQ

The Polish community is very active in their XMPP promotion, a great example being theis site: jabberfaq.info (english, automated translation).

Making XMPP chat-bots as web applications

Adam wrote an article about mod_motion, an erlang/ejabberd module to post stanza to a restful service.

Silverlight XMPP setup guide for MatriX

Alexander Gnauck has written an article detailing how to bypass ports restrictions in Silverlight.

Screencast: Setting Up ejabberd

Jack Moffitt once again, again, has made a simple screencast detailing the basic installation and configuration steps of ejabberd.

Why XMPP will be huge very soon

Pradeep Elankumaran wrote on why XMPP will be huge very soon, detailing the intrinsic advantages of the protocol and the implementations.

XEP dependency graph

Tobias has drawn a dependency graph for XEPs (PDF), just don't be scared.

Facebook chat bot in PHP

Abhinav Singh has written a short article detailing how to write a chat bot based on Facebook XMPP interface, using the Jaxl library.

Starting with Python and XMPP

David Banes, ClearText. http://www.cleartext.com/downloads/XMPP-Python.pdf

Django and XMPP

http://www.slideshare.net/mrjmad/djangocong-2010-djangoetxmpp

Build a web-based notification tool with XMPP

IBM developerworks http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/tutorials/x-realtimeXMPPtut/index.html

FaceTime

Apple's new software for wifi video calls between two iPhone4, uses XMPP for authentication:   

XMPP Summit

At FOSDEM in Brussles, Belgium.

SeaBeyond

In Paris, France, by ProcessOne.