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Write real-time web applications with XMPP, PHP, and JavaScript

I’ve written a tutorial for writing XMPP-based web applications over at IBM DeveloperWorks: Real-time web applications are networked applications, with web-based user interfaces, that display Internet information as soon as it's published. Examples include social news aggregators and monitoring tools that continually update themselves with data from

An introduction to Activity Streams

I’ve written an introduction to the Activity Streams standard for IBM DeveloperWorks: Enter Activity Streams, an evolving standard that extends Atom for expressing social objects. Although it is a young standard, Activity Streams is fast becoming the de facto method for syndicating activity between web applications. For example, MySpace,