Nemeth: How Google pulled the plug on the public Jabber Network

At his blog, Adam Nemeth has harsh words to share about Google's recent decision to move away from the XMPP instant messaging protocol. Specifically, he criticizes XMPP itself: "Jabber failed to provide good enough spam protection, failed to provide a scalable protocol, failed to provide easy transfer of accounts between providers (if I change e-mail address, I don't have to re-add all my friends, it's enough to set a simple forward or inbox pulling - that's not true for Jabber IDs!)." The result, he argues, was that client application developers never found the protocol all that compelling.

