test of my online status indicator
Posted: March 8th, 2006 | Author: ted | Filed under: admin, humanize, technology | 2 Comments »If this works, I’ll figure out how to put it in the sidebar somewhere. It’s an online presence indicator, which will tell you when I’m online and available for a chat through jabber (gmail does this automatically, without you needing any software, or there are tons of other jabber clients). This is like AIM, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ or other chat programs, but jabber is an open standard, so there’s interoperatibility, like we have with email and telephones. Imagine if you could only email people with your same provider? Or phone company? That’s mostly what we have right now with instand messaging. Hopefully this is changing with google getting into the chat business and doing in openly. Anyway, when I’m online, you should see a yellow lightbulb.
Okay, that works. Now I’m trying to figure out how to make that lightbulb clickable so you can send me a message.
Did you get this to work…where is it?? and better yet, could you point me in the direction of making my own?
No, I never got it to work. When I put mine up, or tried to, it was because they were experimenting with them at http://communitywiki.org – I don’t think anyone got them to work and as far as I know, they dropped the idea. That was over a year ago and I haven’t been over there lately, so you might want to check with them.