ruzee.com - Steffen Rusitschka

Today, Google opened Google Talk, their instant messaging and VoIP infrastructure/tool based on XMPP, the protocol of Jabber, to the public! This means, that every user of the Jabber network can now send instant messages to users of Google Talk and vice versa. Since I am a Jabber user, hosting my own Jabber server at rusi.is-a-geek.org, my server now directly communicates with the Google servers for full interworking. If you use Google Talk, I’d be happy if you send me an instant message to jabber@rusi.is-a-geek.org - I really wanna find out, if it works.

But that’s just one part of the story. This news also means that, with an appropriate already in-progress plugin for my Jabber server and yet to come VoIP clients using libjingle we’ll get a completely free, open (as opposed to Skype), easy to use (as opposed to SIP) self-hostable fully distributed VoIP infrastructure (well, where Google charges for calls to plain old telephones - let’s just kick out those!).

Tags: google, talk, open, jabber, xmpp, libjingle, skype, sip

The king is dead - long live the king. Ok, 2005 is gone. What will 2006 bring to us? Of course the soccer world championship in Germany. But what else? Yahoo will buy Netvibes. Google will buy Technorati. Yahoo will buy - ah well, I think you got the point ;-). Whatever happens in the world one thing is for sure: I wish you a happy new year!

Tags: 2006, new year, predictions, technorati, google, yahoo, netvibes

On Slashdot, I just read something funny in the Yahoo/del.icio.us discussion: Someone wrote a Google Desktop plugin that went online right before the announcement. Sad guy - I guess Google will remove the thing in the next hours/days from their site… Well, here’s a screenshot - maybe some rarity in the future