Since we more or less beat the whole “send text from A to B” to death with Jabber, my question is what the future will bring.
If Jabber & Jive really want to kick the a… of LCS & Co we should offer a similar feature set like
co browsing
desktop sharing
whiteboarding
voice & video
click to IM
conferencing in all kinds of sorts and flavours
(add your stuff here)
Of course these have to be supported by a mojority of clients/servers to be useful.
At the moment I see tons of JEPs and everybody seems to do its own thing but do I have to fear that the whole jabber thing now looses steam instead of beaming us into the 21st century???
The ClueCon Developer Conference will be devoting a block of time to the Jingle XMPP-Based media protocol kick-started with a presentation by the Author of the Jingle Specification, Peter St Andre and followed by a developer round table with several experienced VoIP developers.
The Jingle protocol was first tested in the real world by Google with their beta GoogleTalk application. The current implementation of GoogleTalk does not match the actual specification of Jingle but they have plans to implement the Actual Jingle Specification sometime in the future. The Open Source soft-switch FreeSWITCH implemented a Jingle library in March, 2006 that currently matches the variant of Jingle used by Google allowing the GoogleTalk client to join conferences, gateway to public telephone networks and bridge calls to VoIP devices such as hardware SIP phones. FreeSWITCH now wants to take the opportunity at ClueCon to find a way to add more traditional telephony features to the specification and create a happy medium between the peer-to-peer aspect of Jingle and server-to-server scenarios.
The conference takes place August 1st-3rd 2006 in Downtown Chicago, IL
Thanks for the post. While it’'s very true we have a long way to go to kick LCS. arse, we do actually have some of the features mentioned below as part of the commercial side of things in our FastPath product.
FastPath itself is a very sophisticated click to chat customer service application that is a direct plugin into Wildfire and Spark. Some of the features are…
Co Browsing
Click to IM
Chat Monitoring in Conference rooms
Of course, once we get Jingle implements within Spark and Wildfire, things are really going to start progressing. Stay tuned …
Support for multiple account profiles within Spark would be mighty nice.
I’‘ve got a wildfire server setup at home, but I’'ve also recently set one up for work. Being able to switch from one account to the other without all the re-entry time would be mighty convenient.