Posted: Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 at 2:43 pm. Filed in Features.
Tags: blogging, Jabber, technology
Want Instant Delivery of New Blog Posts & Comments?
Jabber is almost as fast as lightning.
Do you ever wish you could get instant notification of when your favorite bloggers update? Or even when a new comment is published on their blogs? If so, you might want to use a service called Jabber to make your blog conversations as fast as lightning (well, almost as fast).
With Jabber, you get split-second delivery of new blog posts and comments — for any WordPress.com blog you want to follow. This means there’s no need to wait for your RSS feed to update, or to use blog email subscriptions.
There are endless ways that Jabber might be used, but here’s a real-life example straight from WordPress.com headquarters. Of course, being a blogging company, our staff uses a lot of different team blogs to track information and to communicate. By using Jabber, we get instant notification when someone has published a new post or comment — and in return, one of us can respond right back. Often, these threads become full-on conversations, almost as if we’re in a chat room. However, because we’re using WordPress.com, we have a stored and searchable record of the conversation. It’s a super-fast, super-efficient way of communicating online.
Using Jabber requires that you have a WordPress.com account and use a Jabber client. You then connect following our instructions, and presto: instant communication.
August 25th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
This is a good recommendation. We’ve used Jabber with good results in the past. Thanks!
August 25th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Actually I’m waiting all the time for instant notification when one of our blogroll partners have updated their blog with new posts. On other blogs I’ve seen a blinking pic with ‘new’ or something else next to the names and it was listed at the very top in the blog roll widget. It would be nice to see such a feature here in wordpress, too
August 25th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
interesting use of Jabber.
Question: Why not utilize pubhubsubbub and salmon for instant updates? this way you can interoperate with other blogging platforms (once they implement pubhubsubbub and salmon)…….
August 25th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
Awesome! TheDolt likes it!
August 25th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
NICE………….
Thanks a lot………
August 25th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Another grandslam!
August 25th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Making my blog anything like a chat room is pretty close to the top of my Never in a Million Years List. Really, if that’s what I wanted, that’s where I’d be.
I’ll pass.
August 25th, 2010 at 3:20 pm
Awesome. I love how you guys are always making the site easier to use. Go WordPress! ^^
August 25th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
more advanced course. I like this one
August 25th, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Awesome!
August 25th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
Thank you very much!
دمتون گرم!
August 25th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
WordPress is just getting better and better. Thanks a whole bunch!
August 25th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
It just keeps getting better and better. Who thinks of this stuff. Thanks again and again!
August 25th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
That sounds a wonderful idea for implementation.
August 25th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Jabber notifications been available for quite some time, but I am happy to see a real-time example.
//furiously thinking how she can use this too.
@saqib ali WordPress.com supports PuSH http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/rub-a-dub-dub-in-the-pubsubhubbub/
August 25th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
geat!! THANK YOU
August 25th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
I’m checking it out as soon as I post this. Sounds handy!
August 25th, 2010 at 5:18 pm
like it!
August 25th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
That sounds interesting. I’ll try it right now.
August 25th, 2010 at 5:47 pm
Wow this is great! You’re always thinking about us users
August 25th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
Given that WordPress sites make up about a third of the web content, I imagine tools like this will only increase that share. I’m in, and keen to stay in touch with what others I’m following are saying.
August 25th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
I don’t really have an issue with the email notifications. I usually get them right away. Maybe I’ll check out Jabber later, though.
August 25th, 2010 at 7:51 pm
Looks like a great system to use if you’re following a lot of WordPress blogs, especially if conversations are going back and forth. Love everything new that’s coming to WordPress all the time!
August 25th, 2010 at 9:32 pm
I’ll try this one
August 25th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Just a note, Trillian can be used to connect with WordPress Jabber as well!
August 25th, 2010 at 9:45 pm
Sounds awesome but I’m not sure if I want it. I’ll have to check it out first.
August 25th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
Perfect!
August 25th, 2010 at 11:41 pm
This is a simple and great service. I like it very much. Thank you.
August 25th, 2010 at 11:48 pm
THANKS!
August 25th, 2010 at 11:58 pm
@Jennifer: Yea, but with pubhubsubbub + salmon WP can provide real-time delivery of @mention comment/posts……..
August 26th, 2010 at 12:11 am
The more options, the better. I may not use it but a good variety of options helps to make blogging a better experience.
August 26th, 2010 at 12:45 am
i really need this
August 26th, 2010 at 1:28 am
Mark told me about this ages ago, but I just didn’t get it. Do the images and videos come through? Or is it more like Friendfeed? I wish RSS worked better; if it did, I’d just use that!
I cannot IMAGINE what it must be like to follow me via Jabber. You’d go insane from the noise.
August 27th, 2010 at 1:28 am
I use Adium on my Mac and Pidgin on my PC, and neither include photos/videos. Just the text.
August 26th, 2010 at 1:53 am
awesome! whatever wordpress does is always helpful…thx!
August 26th, 2010 at 7:55 am
yihaaaa wonderful!!
August 26th, 2010 at 8:25 am
Awesome
August 26th, 2010 at 10:27 am
Neatness!
August 26th, 2010 at 10:48 am
nice..!!
thanks to wordpress.
August 26th, 2010 at 11:50 am
just getting better
August 26th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
That is pretty cool, but I can’t see myself using it.
August 26th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
excellent!!
August 26th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
I can’t actually say that I ever wanted blog and discussion updates in real time. If I went that route, I would surrender far much too control over where and when to direct my attention. I can’t follow twitter in real time either. How could a body get any work done otherwise?
August 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
I like the idea of instant feed updates, but I don’t ever want my blog to be anything like a chat room. If I want to chat, I’ll go to a chat room! But it’s still a good idea.
August 26th, 2010 at 7:54 pm
I’m with Mark Stoneman on this. I don’t want real time updates thanks. I can’t keep up with them. But I do like the fact that the ability to choose to use Jabber or not exists.
August 26th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
cool! awesome
August 26th, 2010 at 10:23 pm
something brilliant…It is more a lot more simple to use this than the e-mail subscription since it can bulk up in your inbox and mostly you just delete it without reading…this is nice
August 27th, 2010 at 12:39 am
Sounds good….hmmm….staying in control of ones blog…..don’t know enough….still low tech newbie on the block…..have to look up and find out about Jabber…..but like the fact that wordpress keeps moving forward and giving us more! Thank you.
August 27th, 2010 at 8:22 am
Sounds Good and i’ll have to try it out
August 27th, 2010 at 9:33 am
wow, I like it
August 27th, 2010 at 11:19 am
Another tool to lose control over my blog? Dunno…
August 28th, 2010 at 2:57 am
More options the merrier.
August 28th, 2010 at 3:16 am
I am going to give it a try
August 28th, 2010 at 11:38 am
Yes, of course, I like the idea presented here.
August 31st, 2010 at 4:06 am
thanks it works
September 1st, 2010 at 6:27 am
Sounds like a lot of information to parse if real time.
What would make it more relevant is if another service could parse and then forward only the key sections and phrases of the posts and updates I follow based on the propensity of keywords in both the meta data of the blogs followed and the sum of the posts I write. Real time cliff notes.
September 1st, 2010 at 7:55 pm
Tried it but not for me. Can see the benefits but I’d rather wait
September 5th, 2010 at 7:43 pm
I’m afraid I’m a Luddite aligned with Ron’s comment. What modern technology does is allow us to do dumb distracted things faster and faster. No offense intended to WordPress, who in general run a good ship.
September 6th, 2010 at 4:38 am
This sounds interesting, although it’s probably more useful for bloggers who have the time and internet access to check even for new posts and comments constantly.
September 8th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
I always wished I could get instant notification when my favorite bloggers updated. But I was failing to do it. Thanks very much.