Google is using XMPP in another way as well. Their new gcm service for android apps uses XMPP behind the scenes. Although not fully. Basically they use it to establish a persistent connection then wrap json in their own gcm tag. On May 22, 2013 12:54 PM, "Dave Cridland" <d...@cridland.net> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Kim Alvefur <z...@zash.se> wrote: > >> On 2013-05-22 18:22, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: >> > PS: I am wondering whether the claimed chat spam problems mentioned in >> the press articles are actually true? >> >> It matches what was said before, search this list for "spammy invites". >> >> > I'm with PSA on this one - I think it's wild exaggeration, just as > branding all the myriad of domains which federated on good terms as being > "insignificant" was similarly rhetoric. > > The single thing that annoys me most about this whole affair is the > dubious passing off of business decisions as technical ones. Sadly, I don't > think this is journalists misquoting - the video footage, for instance, > seems consistent. > > In any case, I've argued before, and will argue again, that Google, by > restricting messaging to only people on the roster, forced their spam issue > on themselves - spammy messages would have been significantly easier to > detect and prevent than spammy subscription requests. > > Dave. >
