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Squawk Box May 14

Posted on May 14, 2008

The biggest story to hit the telecom world in a while, in my opinion, is Facebook's decision to go XMPP with their chat client. I think it means a ton for SIP/Simple, for developers and the IM Gulag perpetuated by Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL. So we talked about it on the SquawkBox. Some conclusions:Given the sheer number of Facebook users in the market, and the failure of Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL to open up their clouds to SIMPLE, is this the nail in the coffin for SIMPLE? Answer: Probably.With popular XMPP clients like Does XMPP beat the big MSFT YHOO AOL at the IM game over the long te...

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