Monthly Archives: August 2005

Craigslist and Katrina

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

I love craigslist and its community, check out some of the ways they are helping.

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A few good points

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

Randy rants a bit about the new google instant messenger. I agree with most of what he wrote, but I think there are some misunderstandings here:

1) Google has done a bit more than just using a open-source/open-protocol software, they’ve added audio on top of jabber. I haven’t dug into the packets yet but I can envision a few things happening soon: Google opening up jabber s2s (server to server) connections and third party apps implementing audio chat.

2) Jabber has the same degree of openess for attacks and spam bots that AOL AIM has. That is until Google publishes or adds a user directory (which I don’t think is going to happen anytime soon).

No, google hasn’t invented or revinented the wheel– but we have to remember this is beta. Google’s got more coming down the pipe for this product and it will be more than just advertisments. Today I have 8 instant messaging accounts online, in the future I see one jabber ID to rule them all.

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Drowning in Instant Messaging

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005


With the launch of google talk this evening I now have 8 instant messenger handles online*. I can’t tell you how nice Adium is, handling all of these accounts. It does it in one window, supports encryption, and most importantly you can map 2 or more “buddies” onto each other. So Jim on AIM and Jim on ICQ can appear as one person.

*Not to mention two IRC sessions…

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