Scott Yang's Playground

Just to preempt you that in case you have not seen me on MSN/Live Messenger for a while — I am still alive. Just that I decided that I would not use MSN Messenger any more. No. I’ve got lots of friends there — some I know in real life, and some are just acquaintance [...]

On Google’s official blog, they are celebrating the birthday of Google Talk. Wait a minute. Google What? Or am I the only one who could not remember that promising Jabber/XMPP-powered Windows-based chat client? Google Talk has actually had a lot of improvement since its launch one year ago. File sharing. Integration with Gmail, etc. They [...]

Google Talk – Jabber based instant messenger with integrated voice chat. Yes, it is indeed based on the IETF’s XMPP, that is compatible with many existing Jabber clients. It is great to see Google embracing the standard. My Google Talk ID is “scott.yang”, and I shall be there in the evenings.

Native Jabber support for iChat on Mac OS X Tiger. Oh man. This rocks. You can connect directly to a Jabber server from iChat, and can search your buddy list from the Addressbook.

Since I added Bandersnatch to my Jabber server to log all conversations between myself and my correspondants on various IM networks two weeks ago, I also managed to import whole year worth of chat messages in XML format logged by JAJC into my message history database. Analysing the data itself proves to be quite interesting. [...]

I am a Jabber person, and it manages all my IM contacts on different networks on my own Jabber server. On Windows I am using the excellent JAJC that is very stable and feature rich with full unicode support. On Mac OS X it is a different story. The most prominent client application is probably [...]

From my previous rant against Microsoft and MSN Messenger, I said that I would not be able to connect to this instant messenger network after 15th of October, as Microsoft will be blocking all the clients using protocols prior to MSN8. That would include the Jabber server I’m using at work to connect to MSN. [...]

I will probably be connected to MSN Messenger network for one more month, before Microsoft cuts me off from their IM network on the 15th of October. This is what I received as a chat message from MSN this morning, when I connected to their service: You are running a version of messenger that requires [...]

I have been using ICQ since the early days. Well, not that early because my UIN still has 7 digits. For a long while ICQ has been my primary, if not exclusive, instant messenger (IM) client because most my contacts are on ICQ. However, over the last 2 years I have started getting more contacts [...]