[Social] OT: list subscribers

[Dan Brickley]

Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> BTW, I had to tweak something in the Mailman admin interface so I
> decided to see how many people are subscribed to this list. Turns out
> there are ~250 of you. I didn't think so many people were interested in
> the intersection of XMPP and social networking, but I was wrong. :)

Which is as good a nudge as any to finally de-lurk. Um yup, XMPP is one 
of the quiet success stories of social networking interop. It really 
seems to have turned a corner these last few years and all that hard 
work is paying off.

I have various interests here, ... most generally, in looking for 
integration opportunities across the various 'social web' technologies 
that have recently matured. In the FOAF project for example, we're 
interested in use of XMPP for representing groups, buddylists, and 
sharing of user profiles. More generally I've been hacking around with 
the use of XMPP as a data bus for RDF querying using SPARQL (as Peter 
well knows, being my XMPP helpline). Some notes on that at [1]. I'm also 
interested in ways of describing XMPP group chats in ways that make them 
more findable, so the recent work on using HTML 'link' for autodiscovery 
is rather promising.

Also I'd like to note that at both Social Graph Foo Camp a couple months 
ago, and at XTech in Dublin last week, a good few people noted "oh, I 
didn't realise how important XMPP was before seeing these talks".

cheers,

Dan


[1] http://danbri.org/words/2008/02/11/278