[FOWA]: Colliding Worlds: Using Jabber to make awesome web sites

by Blaine Cook, again…
>Jabber? Jabber!

From the creation of the world to Jabber in a few minutes. «And it was good!»
There a lot of energy wasted in communication between server and client. Client keeps asking: Has anything changed? Most of the time server responds: Nope!
> we don’t want to keep asking all the time if something has changed! we want to get told when something changes > more efficience!
http is pull mechanism, we want push mechanism!
Jabber! Persistent, lightweight, bi-directional, asynchronous, guaranteed server identity
Jabber examples now on screen
That stuff is fast! (but no live demo – «i learned my lesson about live demos» ;)
Talking about example sharing photos between Facebook and Flickr. Dunno if this is really up or just an example of what might be possible.

Interesting stuff, needs to be looked at.

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