Six Apart Introduces New Jabber Server to the Open Source Community and IM and Voice to LiveJournal Users; LiveJournal Partners with Gizmo Project To Offer Integrated IM and Voice Calling Worldwide.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden & PORTLAND, Ore. -- Six Apart, the world leader in blogging software and services, today announced it has created an open source modular, scalable, high performance Jabber An open standard for instant messaging (IM). There are tens of thousands of Jabber servers on the Internet, most of which are privately run within a company or college campus. There are also hundreds of public Jabber servers that any user can register with, Google Talk being the largest. server that enables others to integrate their services with Jabber and LJ Talk, LiveJournal's new instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or and voice service. The new server provides smoothly integrated IM and voice capabilities, and is now available for any company or service provider to use for free. In addition, Six Apart announced two major enhancements to its popular LiveJournal social network, enabling the ten million members of the LiveJournal community to IM and talk to friends both inside and outside of the LiveJournal service. The enhancements are LJ Talk, LiveJournal's new instant messaging and voice service, and Gizmo Project Gizmo Project is the name of a peer-to-peer VoIP network and of a proprietary freeware soft phone for that network. Gizmo Project was founded by Michael Robertson.[1] for LJ Talk, a preferred voice/IM client optimized for use with LJ Talk. The introduction of the Jabber server continues LiveJournal's tradition of contributing significant technologies to the open source community. For example, Perlbal, a load-balancing platform used by sites like Wikipedia, and memcached, a powerful memory caching system for databases used by sites like Facebook and Craigslist, are just some of LiveJournal's innovations that have made the delivery of web-based services more robust and efficient. "LiveJournal has always been open source because we are passionate about keeping it a platform for innovation," said Barak Berkowitz, Six Apart's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "We want to make it easy for people to build services on top of the LiveJournal platform. And we want to make it easy for other services to connect to our open platform. Today's announcements are good examples of the kind of openness, inclusion and innovation to which we are committed." Since LJ Talk is based on the open Jabber standard, LiveJournal users Some users of LiveJournal, or the journals themselves have become famous throughout the years for their especially interesting content, including political commentary and anecdotal advice on subjects ranging from household care to aquariums, or because they belong to otherwise can IM and talk with friends who are using other Jabber-based services such as Google's Gtalk or Earthlink's Mindspring. LJ Talk works with any Jabber client, including Gaim, Adium, iChat, Trillian Pro, and Pandion. Jabber is best known as "the Linux of instant messaging" -- an open, secure alternative to proprietary IM services. Under the hood under the hood - [hot-rodder talk] 1. The underlying implementation of a product (hardware, software, or idea). Implies that the implementation is not intuitively obvious from the appearance, but the speaker is about to enable the listener to grok it. , Jabber is a set of streaming XML Streaming XML means dynamic data which is in an XML format. Another popular use of this term refers to one method of consuming XML data – largely known as Simple API for XML. This is via asynchronous events that are generated as the XML data is parsed. protocols and technologies that enable any two entities on the Internet to exchange messages, presence, and other structured information in real time. Through a partnership with Gizmo Project, LiveJournal will offer a preferred voice and IM software client called Gizmo Project for LJ Talk which will automatically synchronize a user's LJ friends with their Gizmo Project for LJ Talk contact list. Besides instant messaging, the software will enable LJ users to use the Internet to call other computers, landlines and mobile phones (also known as VOIP (Voice Over IP) A digital telephone service that uses the public Internet as well as private backbones instead of the traditional telephone network. Many companies, including Vonage, 8x8 and AT&T (CallVantage), typically offer calling within the country for a ). LJ users at the Plus and Paid level will easily be able to make voice posts to LiveJournal via VOIP. The software is expected to be available in August 2006. "These enhancements enrich the LiveJournal community by letting users easily communicate with people who are both inside and outside it, breaking down barriers and facilitating free-flowing communication across the globe," said Artur Bergman, LiveJournal engineering manager. "We are joining forces with other players in the open source community to create an open network with no lock-in, and one that is fun and exciting for our users." Any company or service provider wishing to use the LJ Jabber server can go to http://code.sixapart.com for more information. About Six Apart Six Apart Ltd. provides award-winning blogging software and services that change the way millions of individuals, organizations, and corporations connect and communicate across the world every day. Founded in 2002 by husband and wife team Ben Trott and Mena G. Trott, Six Apart has grown into a global company with its headquarters in San Francisco, CA, and offices in Europe and Japan. The company continues to lead in the blogging and social media industry with the Movable Type movable type n. Printing Type in which each character is cast on a separate piece of metal. publishing platform, the TypePad hosted blogging service and LiveJournal, an online community organized around personal journals. In June 2006 Six Apart introduced a preview version of Vox, a hosted personal blogging service that will be publicly available in late 2006. For more information, visit the Six Apart corporate blog A corporate weblog is published and used by an organization to reach its organizational goals. The advantage of blogs is that posts and comments are easy to reach and follow due to centralized hosting and generally structured conversation threads. at http://www.sixapart.com/. |
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