Problems resolved
It took us much longer than we thought, but mabber is up and running. While we were at it, we also installed some updates for the transports into networks like AIM, MSN, ICQ and Yahoo!.
Thank you very much for your patience, it's appreciated.
mabber is experiencing problems
Currently, mabber is experiencing connectivity problems. We're working hard to solve them and hope to have them nailed down quickly. In the meantime: Thanks for your understanding.
The mabber Widget as a Wordpress Plugin
Wordpress is a wildly successful "personal publishing system" or rather, as normal people would probably call it, a fine piece of weblog software.
If you use Wordpress 2.2 or newer (version 2.0 will also work, although you'll miss out some of the niftyness), we have a goody for you: Thanks to the architecture for plugins in Wordpress, you can include the mabber Widget as a Wordpress plugin on your blog! After the download and a few clicks inside Wordpress, visitors to your page can leave a mabber message to your address and directly chat with you on your own weblog.
Get the plugin here. Of course, as usual, it's free for you to use and download.
mabber Groupchat on the Facebook Platform
Facebook is a leading social software platform that recently announced deep integration of third-party applications on the social network itself. Sounds too geeky? Let us give you an example: How about adding mabber groupchat conferences to all the Facebook groups for chatting it up with your friends and contacts in that group? Having regular, real-time online meetings with like-minded people on Facebook, to discuss upcoming events in that group or for some virtual coffee klatsch? Just add the mabber application!
All you need is a Facebook account and a group on Facebook that would profit from a groupchat. If you can't find anything better, of course you're free to join the mabber group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2744955015
To add the mabber application, login and add it here: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2359314654
Oh, and please tell others in your groups to add the application as well. After all, chatting in a group is more fun with lots of people.
The mabber groupchat on Facebook is free of charge and here for you to use. Currently the application is in the process of being added to the official directory of Facebook apps, but readers of this blog can get it now before it goes prime time on the Facebook platform.
Have fun!
Announcing ChatBot and the mabber svn repository
As we have said before:
We have built mabber out of Open Source and Free Software components and we strongly believe in the principle of giving back to community and thus making both mabber and the world in general a better place :-)
So here's another piece of open source goodness for you: ChatBot, your friendly channel management bot, which we use inhouse for development conferences. We at mabber sponsored the further development of this piece of code and will take over the lead now in further advancing the software. If you want to know the whole story, read it in the blog of one of our developers.
Starting with ChatBot, we also open our svn repository for bits and pieces of opensource mabber software at http://code.mabber.com/
Enjoy!
Up again
Thanks for the patience.
Experiencing problems
Our hosting center is currently suffering a blackout. While we're working on the problems and hope to resolve them in the next moments, we also have to ask for your understanding. We'll be back any moment.
Verpackt und auf dem Weg zur Post
Nachdem wir es jetzt geschafft haben, mit allen Gewinnern unseres Suchspiels Kontakt aufzunehmen, freuen wir uns, die Gewinne an sie zu verschicken.
Wir bedanken uns bei allen Mitspielern für die tatkräftige Unterstützung bei der Suche und natürlich auch bei den Bloggern, bei denen die Mabber Unterschlupf fanden.
Mabber Billboard Campaign
Today a nationwide billboard campaign for mabber started in Germany. We are pretty excited to see mabber out in the streets.
Mabber gesucht!
Viel Spass beim Suchen, es gibt auch etwas zu gewinnen!
Was ein Mabber ist, erklären wir hier auch gerne noch einmal.
Interview with Nico Lumma, mabber.com
During last weeks re:publica I had the pleasure to get interviewed by Victoria Trosien about mabber.com and starting an internet business.
[ via: @re-publica: interview with Nico Lumma, mabber.com ]
Happy Easter!
Job offers at mabber
We are currently looking for two new members at the mabber team:
Python developer
We are looking for a qualified Python developer for a project involving Jabber transports.
Candidates should have the following skills:
- very extensive experience in Python programming
solid knowledge of instant messaging technologies and protocols, especially OSCAR/AIM - experience with XMPP/Jabber
- experience with reverse engineering network protocols (TCP/IP) on the application layer
Job applications should be directed to jobs@mabber.com. Contractors welcome. All code produced for our product will be available publically through the GPL.
Jabber admin
We are looking for a qualified system administrator.
Candidates should have the following skills:
- Linux experience, Gentoo preferred
- Experience with nagios or other monitoring tools
- experience with scripting (Python, Ruby, Java would be a plus)
- experience in HA environments a strong plus
- experience as a Jabber admin, ejabberd preferred
Job applications should be directed to jobs@mabber.com.
Die 25 wichtigsten Start-ups im Web 2.0.
Die 25 wichtigsten Start-ups im Web 2.0. hat Peter Turi ausgewürfelt und Mabber ist auf Platz 10 gelandet. Vielen Dank dafür.
Relaunch!
Today we finally relaunched mabber!
New Features include:
- new mobile Client
- Mabber Alerts for RSS to go
- Widget
- interactive Helpbot
- lots of inner reworkings
- more blue
Enjoy IM with mabber!