Great article on Jive Software’s Community Blog: XMPP (a.k.a. Jabber) is the future for cloud services.
The Tivo example that Matt provides is good conversational fodder if you ever need to explain why Polling is Evil to a non-technical audience.
Personally, I don’t love the “Cloud Services” moniker, but that’s neither here nor there. Regardless of what they call it, we’re starting to see that the app networking world is sliding into standardization, using HTTP for simple round-trip synchronous communications, and XMPP for asynchronous communications and/or stateful conversational communications.
The consolidation of the major Instant Messaging providers around XMPP will do much to glue the “Web” and “Non-Web” elements of the Internet together in ways that we’ve only started to think about.
Also, here’s a link (found in the comments of the aforementioned article) about the new XMPP Logo.
