intertwingly

It’s just data

Facebook does XMPP

Florian Jensen: just use your Facebook Username and Password, and use the server chat.facebook.com.

Also ensure Require SSL/TLS is not turned on.  Other than that, seems to work seamlessly.


Participating is Key

Tim Bray: the Net is the greatest listening engine ever devised. These days anyone can choose, with its help, to be well-informed

Yehuda Katz: It’s easy to spit out “lmgtfy.com” or RTFM, but in truth, these beginners barely know where to look. All too often, we (open source leaders) assume that if someone couldn’t figure out the right search term on Google, they can never become a viable community member.

I claim that there is a third ingredient that makes this all work.  That ingredient is participating.

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