I have a number of blog posts I want to make. About Jabber, about Edinburgh, about wikis, about Venus. I’ve just read this story Shadow lamps to connect friends on the BBC and I absolutely love it. How could we do something similar at home? Off the top of my head: ...

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Presence has been gradually seeping out from IM over the past few years into other applications, notably in the XMPP/Jabber community where presence is a key (it’s the first ‘P’ in XMPP!). The benefits of using XMPP are mainly that it’s an open, documented and extensible standard which allows anyone to make use of it. In an article called Say...

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I want to be able to have something either on my desk, or stuck to my monitor which indicates what my current presence level is (e.g. available, do not disturb, working but please interrupt me, etc.), fed by my Instant Messenger presence. I’ve only been able to find a single buy-it-and-go option: the Ambient Orb, which loo...

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