[laumars]

Coincidentally, only yesterday I installed an XMPP daemon on one of my servers and configured it as a message relay so I can send and receive SMS from my PC via my phone.

Facebook chat also uses XMPP.

So in answer to your question: yes, there are people still building new stuff on top of XMPP.

However I will concede that I'm also a bit IRC advocate - so I'm probably the wrong person to comment on the best newest social protocols.

[npsimons]

the best newest social protocols.

Better known as "reinvention of shit that already worked because we want to lock you into our platform and monetize your eyeballs."

[tiziano88]

No one is taking xmpp away from your server or the applications that are using it; but take Facebook: did they do any effort of integrating their chat with the Gmail one?

[laumars]

You're missing my point. The previous poster stated that nobody was using XMPP and I was simply stating that wasn't true.

I'm not worried that Google might someone how hack into my server and kill XMPP on that, nor am I commenting on the level of the Facebook Chat integration with the wider XMPP community (in fact the reason I run my own XMPP server was to have a private channel, so I can completely understand why Facebook have chosen to do so as well).

My comment was just stating that XMPP is still widely used - despite other peoples claims that Google were it's only supporters.

[nocman]

"but take Facebook"

...

PLEASE!

:-D

(with apologies to Henny Youngman -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henny_Youngman)

[azar1]

I'd love to read how you set that up. Any links you can point me to?

[laumars]

The SMS thing? It's basically just an Android app (gtalksms [1]). But I wanted a private encrypted network to control it from (I actually go further and then hook the XMPP server into bitlbee which is an IRC server for IM clients. So now I can control my phone, Twitter, Facebook Chat and Windows Messenger all from Irssi.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/gtalksms/