I remember a lot of bloggers such as Steve Gillmor writing about XMPP nearly everyday on Techcrunch Enterprise around 2009. He said it was going to change everything about corporate software. I repeatedly pointed out to him how ridiculous that was (it was just XML, managers don't care about XML, etc) and to which he replied I had my 'head in the sand'.
It was favored among the tech-hyperbole people who turn concepts like 'cloud computing' into meaningless phrases. But that faded away pretty fast.
Unfortunately Google decided to abandoned one of the actual good use-cases for it when the dropped XMPP support from Hangouts (by default), which still upsets me.
It was favored among the tech-hyperbole people who turn concepts like 'cloud computing' into meaningless phrases. But that faded away pretty fast.
Unfortunately Google decided to abandoned one of the actual good use-cases for it when the dropped XMPP support from Hangouts (by default), which still upsets me.