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XMPP Roundup 13: services
Here is the XMPP Roundup 13, dedicated this time to new and updated services. As annonouced before, the XMPP Roundup has been split into many parts: "articles, talks and events" and also "new and updated software", already publisehd.

EVE Online

The EVE Online science-fiction MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) is using an XMPP service for in-game chats (also offering e-mail), on the eve-mail.net domain, with S2S (server-to-server) open for federation.

Interactive XMPP demos

The Google App Engine blog has listed a few interactive XMPP demos, like CrowdGuru, a crowdsourcing answers bot, and Multi-Chat, an IRC-like chatroom system.

Jabcast XMPP

Desktop Alert Inc. have released Jabcast XMPP, allowing public and private sector users of the Common Alerting Protocol to broadcast alerts using XMPP. More information is available at the press release.

PuSH Bot: PubSubHubbub to XMPP Gateway

A PubSubHubbub to XMPP gateway had already been mentionned in the previous Roundup, but PuSH Bot is a new such gateway running on http://push-bot.appspot.com/. The code is available under the Apache V2.0 license at the partychapp project (XMPP-based chatrooms for Google Talk).

Collecta's XMPP API

Collecta, the real-time search engine, has published a new XMPP API. Take look at it, it is really simple.

Tlen.pl XMPP federation

Tlen.pl, or "oxygen" in polish, is a slightly modified XMPP service. It features voice calls, SMS and video conference. Tlen.pl has been compatible since a long time with Gadu-gadu, the most used IM service in Poland (proprietary client, service, and protocol). Tlen.pl is now open to XMPP federation.

Today’s Special

Prashant Thakkar has written a bot that serves quotes of the day, words of the day, historical events of the day, horoscope of the day, joke of the day, as well as cricket scores. Just add todays-special@appspot.com to your roster and send 'help' to get a list of commands.

Clisearch Jabber bot

Clisearch is a Jabber bot that will answer your queries, subscribe to RSS feeds and topics, manage your tasks and bookmarks, plus help you count with a calculator. Just add agent@clisearch.net to your roster and start by typing the usual 'help'. Clisearch is brought to you by Roman Kvasnyj from Russia and Anurag Bhatia from India.

BBC's LiveText-via-IP

The famous brittish radio broadcaster BBC is doing [LiveText-via-IP http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2009/11/pushfeeds.shtml] by sending PubSub events to all browser listening to a BBC online radio.

XMPPguru

Thiago has talked about XMPPguru a new appspot XMPP bot that answers to your general questions.

pip.io

"Pipio is a social operating system that aims to give people the ability to share and communicate in real-time. You can search what other people are communicating about in real-time based on contextual, geographical, and chronological relevance." More precisely, it is a web applications that mimics a desktop environment.

jabber.org migration

The jabber.org XMPP service has now migrated to M-Link server from Isode. The registration is still close since the service is in stabilization phase.

The polish nasza-klasa social network on XMPP: NKtalk

http://erlang-consulting.com/press-releases/3/entry/1129 http://nasza-klasa.pl/

lyricsfly

http://metajack.im/2010/01/13/song-lyrics-xmpp-bot-and-tutorial/

U Federation

Guillaume Le Galès has launched U Federation, a new beta service for personalized multi-user chats, based on XMPP. It lets you groupchat and broadcast live audio/video in the MUC.

ReaTiWe and PaaS

ReaTiWe (for "real-time web") is an application hosted on the Google App Engine (GAE), which is a "playground for all cool real-time-related stuff", including technologies such as XMPP, WebHooks, and PuSH (PubSubHubbub). It relies on PaaS for Presence-as-a-Service, which is using XMPP presence stanza for microblogging. Both ReaTiWe and [paas PaaS] source codes are published by Stoyan Zhekov.

Google Wave gateway

ProcessOne has put online a Google Wave gateway on the Talkr.IM public XMPP server.

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