Are Ping.fm & Co. Solving the Problem or Exacerbating it?
Ping.fm finally announced its open beta today and not everyone is rejoicing. When I first started monitoring these services that allow you to send messages across multiple platforms I was happy. I thought, like many people still do, that these services...

Are Ping.fm & Co. Solving the Problem or Exacerbating it?
"Services like Ping.fm and hellotxt aren’t helping us make our conversations platform independent, they’re making our conversations more impersonal and are further fragmenting our networks."

Clickatell Ruby API
A Ruby API and GEM for Clickatell's SMS service. Provides one single, simple API for over 700 networks in 200 countries. Perfect for those building Twitter-like services, especially in the enterprise.

Juggernaut
Push server for Rails using flash.

Put’em in the queue
Rails is very good web framework. It works very well, as long You use it as it supposed to be used. Serving web applications means processing HTTP requests (often a lot of them) as fast as possible and send output to the browser. All is fine as long...

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Chat | MeGlobe™
Meglobe, which launched its translation client on Tuesday, is machine-only, meaning it can offer speed, privacy and more languages but lacks the benefit of humans checking translations. Meglobe, which uses Jabber instead of its own client, hopes the...

Q4M - a Message Queue for MySQL
Q4M (Queue for MySQL) is a message queue licensed under GPL that works as a pluggable storage engine of MySQL 5.1, designed to be robust, fast, flexible. The development started in late December of 2007, and although it is very primitive, operates quite...