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RSS never blocks you or goes down: why social networks need to be decentralized

By Andy Oram
September 13, 2009

We may have been willing to build our virtual houses on shaky foundations might when they were temporary beach huts; but now we need to examine the ground on which many are proposing to build our virtual shopping malls and even our virtual federal offices. The next generation of social networking increasingly appears to require a decentralized, peer-to-peer infrastructure.

What Can You Do with XMPP?

By Kathryn Barrett
May 4, 2009

XMPP: The Definitive Guide covers everything you need to know about Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). This open technology for real-time collaboration, social networking, microblogging, lightweight middleware, cloud computing, and more. This excerpt provides a high-level overview of the technology and introduces you to the ways it's being used. Read more about XMPP.

Analysis 2009: The Web Services Era Begins in Earnest

By Kurt Cagle
January 6, 2009

(Warning, this gets technical). This may seem a rather odd statement - after all, "web services" in the traditional SOA sense have been around for the last decade, give or take a few years. I believe, however, that while...

Cisco Gets the XMPP Message, Buys Jabber

By Kurt Cagle
September 22, 2008

It's obvious that Cisco gets the message about the importance of XMPP to the future of the infrastructure of the web, and is placing its bets on the future of Jabber.

XSLT 2.0++: Streaming XML Transformations and Parallel XML Message Processing

By M. David Peterson
September 2, 2008

After returning home from a two-week vacation, Dr. Michael Kay reveals what's next on tap for the XSLT Working Group at the W3C: Streaming XML Transformations. Will the combination of a Schema-Aware XSLT processor, streaming XML, and XMPP completely change the way we both think about and implement message processing solutions in the future? It's certainly possible.

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