What did you use for XMPPs that help you as a web developer / manager?

Question

To make my question clear:

I have been experimenting with XMPP, lately - I set up my own XMPP server and tried to figure out what applications it can use in our development process. Besides the obvious things (we use it for IM-ing and created a group chat for our team), we use it as a notification platform for our problem tracking system and our continuous integration system.

I’ve already thought about some other possible possibilities, such as monitoring the status of our servers (through the presence level), notification of application exclusion (via PubSub), etc.

My general idea is to create some kind of unified support system for our development process, which will exchange data using a regular IM client (PubSub support would be great) and make our processes more transparent and more responsive.

Have you ever thought of something like this? Or are you using something completely different for this purpose? Am I just reinventing the wheel?

Answer 1

Website notifications (most likely through changes posted to Atom feeds) that are pushed out to subscribers of IM clients using pure PubSub or PEP (a subset of PubSub) will be a great application, outside of instant messaging with a vanilla corporate computer.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

IMified (imified.com) is a pretty good way to create the look of the applications you are talking about.