First, Meebo announced that social sites can embed their IM network so that friends of these sites can chat amongst themselves and across Meebo's integrations with the top IM networks. Within this news, and perhaps more interesting, was some reference to XMPP and the ability to broadcast status updates from these sites through their IM user interface. If Meebo can get embeds in enough sites or works on some of their own integrations, then they become a pretty interesting aggregator and distributor of real-time status updates across domains. I wanted this chat platform from Meebo 2 years ago. Now, I bet I'm not the only one in the status aggregation space wondering if Meebo is a competitor or a good partner. But I'd like to explore this more.
Second, Gnip pretty much solidified their business plan by securing the XMPP connection for Twitter (reported by TechCrunch). It's a huge win for Gnip that was probably a baked assumption for their startup. Twitter is the cornerstone of the real-time status space, so without Twitter, I'm not sure Gnip could have pulled this off. Now I think they are off to the races to becoming a big-time message broker. (Louis Gray just published a good post on Gnip with some insights from their CEO, Eric Marcoullier.) We're ready Gnip...Hook us up!
What's really positive is that XMPP is getting alot of hype lately. at TechCrunchIT says "XMPP is the HTTP for communications on the web, and soon we will look back at the days of polling a web service and wonder what the hell we were smoking." Real-time is coming fast...
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