Monday, April 21, 2008

What Is Jabber? | Jabber.org

What Is Jabber? | Jabber.org:

"Jabber is: An open, secure technology for instant messaging and a whole lot more.

A friendly community of end users and developers who value freedom of communication.

A decentralized network of IM services in which your messages are not monitored by a big company like AOL, Microsoft, or Yahoo. You can even run your own server!

A set of stable standards for real-time communications, published by the IETF and the XMPP Standards Foundation.

Instant messaging the way it was meant to be!

In other words, Jabber is NOT a closed, insecure, unfriendly, centralized, proprietary instant messaging service like AIM, ICQ, MSN, or Yahoo.

Instead, Jabber gives you true freedom of conversation. So get started today!"

Quickstart

Need to get up and running quickly? Here's how!

1. Download a free client.

2. If you downloaded client software, install it and start it.

3. If you have an existing account at a Jabber-enabled service like Google Talk or Live Journal, you can simply log in.

4. If you don't have an existing Jabber account, log in to one of the many free Jabber services using your preferred username and your client will automatically create the account. *

5. Log in and start chatting with others on the Jabber network.

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