Big news in France : the radio Skyrock released SkyMessenger (nicknamed SM), a Jabber-based instant messaging service. Some facts :
- Skyrock is famous in France for Skyblog, its very successful blog service, with more than 3.4 millions active blogs. If only a few Skyblog users start using SkyMessenger, it still means a lot of new Jabber users.
- The service seems to be pure-Jabber. Not a modified, incompatible version as in Livecom. People managed to connect using Gajim.
- The client is heavily based on Gajim and released under the GPL.
- The service is only a Beta for now, with a limited number of downloads.
- The address used by the server is skymess.com. Only port 5222 is open, with SASL enabled.
- It seems that the business plan is to provide information through the IM service, about updated skyblogs for examples.
- Server-to-server (s2s) communications are currently disabled. Some well-informed geeks seem to think that they plan to open it. It is confirmed by the add contact dialog, with proposes to add contact of type icq, msn, wanadoo, etc …
They seem to be quite commited to free software, and they prove it again.
Sky rocks ;)
Hi Lucas, Frank Denis says at http://www.00f.net/php/show-arti... that the client is some kind of Mozilla-based software. Is it really based on Gajim?
stpeter: I have only second hand information about this part. I haven’t tried the client myself. But parts of it are in python, so it might just be a mix of gajim’s base classes and XUL.
OK, I guess we’ll find out eventually. ;-) /psa
XUL is indeed used as described by LaurentJ : ljouanneau.com/blog/2005/…
It uses pyXMPP / pyXPCOM under a XUL app…
This is the third XUL application using Jabber I know (the others are mozchat and jabberzilla).
Hi Lucas, we (Gajim) are using xmpppy, not PyXMPP (eventhough I talk more often to PyXMPP dev than xmpppy dev..)
Where do you base that they dep on us? (note I’m not french so I couldn’t even manage to get the source code of SM :)
thanks
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