There's been a lot of talk about Web Services and making them interoperate with IM systems. Personally, I think this desire is actually a misplaced wish for a transport system which can move these Web Service requests around with low latency -- something better than HTTP.

Jabber provides a low-latency, asynchronous framework which could make web services that much more valuable. One of the problems, this far, has been getting people to look beyond Jabber as IM. I suspect this is actually a issue with the way in which the Open Source (and commercial) Jabber servers are packaged. Neither of them come out of the box in a way that is attractive to the Web Services community.

That changes today.  8:33:17 PM    

It just occurred to me that this time last year (approximately) I was in Seattle doing scale testing of the first JCS (Jabber Commercial Server).  11:35:31 AM    

Woohoo! My first Mac was ordered on Thursday -- a TiBook. It's currently enroute to Anchorage. I'm hoping it will be here by Wednesday.  11:17:37 AM