XMPP FTW! - Robert Scoble

yeah, as you said Robert here comes the video firehose! - Loic Le Meur

here is the url "XMPP PubSub aka "death by a thousand cuts" http://www.loiclemeur.com/english... - Loic Le Meur

I love how all the non-techies blog about tech (as if they have a clue) and hold up XMPP as the magic bullet. It slices! It dices! It'll even get you off! FAIL. - ld

hey dear Leather Donut, thank you for encouraging us so much in our new direction - Loic Le Meur from twhirl

Gregory, I am all ears to help you, please email me at loic at seesmic dot com - Loic Le Meur from twhirl

no, I am not technical myself enough, but I have a great team, and they will explain more how it works very soon - Loic Le Meur from twhirl

XMPP allows us to avoid polling on the site and enables us to push live content to 3rd party apps and services. It's the whole push vs. pull thing. It'll also enable us to do some pretty cool Web 2.0 kind of services like "live search / track" in a much more painless way than traditionally. It'll enable us to have live interactions between users on and off the site. It's simply another tool on our belt, and we intend to make the most of it. - Nathan Fritz

It will also provide a means for IM interaction with the service like Friendfeed and Identi.ca provides. Remember when Twitter had this? - Nathan Fritz

To summarize: 1) push vs. pull. 2) really enabling our 3rd party devs to do cool things with the service. 3) Live interaction between users on and off the site. 4) IM interaction with the service. - Nathan Fritz