I'm going to be ordering 'XMPP: The Definitive Guide' today (ISBN 059652126X).  I have a project coming up which, fingers crossed, will be an ideal opportunity to become versed in this technology. I remember a few years ago, when I came across the Jabber project, I was really excited about it and started using the Exodus IM client all time. I even got my girlfriend (at the time) to register an account.  I also remember going to stpeter's website and taking pointers for creating a decent personal websites (which wasn't a blog).  I remember thinking this was eventually going to be *huge* and I'm kind of kicking myself now that it never occured to me, that like a lot exciting open source technology, people will eventually be adopting it without even know they're doing it, or at least not realising the significance of its openness.  Exciting times. Anyway enough with the jibber-jabber, apparently I have a 'decent read' to get through and this one isn't a Hermann Hesse novel.