Do you ever wish you could get instant notification of when your favorite bloggers update? Or even when a new comment is published on their blogs? If so, you might want to use a service called Jabber to make your blog conversations as fast as lightning (well, almost as fast).
With Jabber, you get split-second delivery of new blog posts and comments — for any WordPress.com blog you want to follow. This means there’s no need to wait for your RSS feed to update, or to use blog email subscriptions.
There are endless ways that Jabber might be used, but here’s a real-life example straight from WordPress.com headquarters. Of course, being a blogging company, our staff uses a lot of different team blogs to track information and to communicate. By using Jabber, we get instant notification when someone has published a new post or comment — and in return, one of us can respond right back. Often, these threads become full-on conversations, almost as if we’re in a chat room. However, because we’re using WordPress.com, we have a stored and searchable record of the conversation. It’s a super-fast, super-efficient way of communicating online.
Using Jabber requires that you have a WordPress.com account and use a Jabber client. You then connect following our instructions, and presto: instant communication.
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This is a good recommendation. We’ve used Jabber with good results in the past. Thanks!
Actually I’m waiting all the time for instant notification when one of our blogroll partners have updated their blog with new posts. On other blogs I’ve seen a blinking pic with ‘new’ or something else next to the names and it was listed at the very top in the blog roll widget. It would be nice to see such a feature here in wordpress, too 😀
interesting use of Jabber.
Question: Why not utilize pubhubsubbub and salmon for instant updates? this way you can interoperate with other blogging platforms (once they implement pubhubsubbub and salmon)…….
Awesome! TheDolt likes it! 😉
NICE………….
Thanks a lot………
Another grandslam!
Making my blog anything like a chat room is pretty close to the top of my Never in a Million Years List. Really, if that’s what I wanted, that’s where I’d be.
I’ll pass.
Awesome. I love how you guys are always making the site easier to use. Go WordPress! ^^
more advanced course. I like this one
Awesome!
Thank you very much!
دمتون گرم!
WordPress is just getting better and better. Thanks a whole bunch!
It just keeps getting better and better. Who thinks of this stuff. Thanks again and again!
That sounds a wonderful idea for implementation.
Jabber notifications been available for quite some time, but I am happy to see a real-time example. 🙂 //furiously thinking how she can use this too.
@saqib ali WordPress.com supports PuSH https://wordpress.com/blog/2010/03/03/rub-a-dub-dub-in-the-pubsubhubbub/
geat!! THANK YOU
I’m checking it out as soon as I post this. Sounds handy!
like it!
That sounds interesting. I’ll try it right now. 🙂
Wow this is great! You’re always thinking about us users 🙂
Given that WordPress sites make up about a third of the web content, I imagine tools like this will only increase that share. I’m in, and keen to stay in touch with what others I’m following are saying.
I don’t really have an issue with the email notifications. I usually get them right away. Maybe I’ll check out Jabber later, though.
Looks like a great system to use if you’re following a lot of WordPress blogs, especially if conversations are going back and forth. Love everything new that’s coming to WordPress all the time!
I’ll try this one 🙂
Just a note, Trillian can be used to connect with WordPress Jabber as well!
Sounds awesome but I’m not sure if I want it. I’ll have to check it out first.
Perfect! 🙂
This is a simple and great service. I like it very much. Thank you.
THANKS!
@Jennifer: Yea, but with pubhubsubbub + salmon WP can provide real-time delivery of @mention comment/posts……..
The more options, the better. I may not use it but a good variety of options helps to make blogging a better experience.
i really need this
Mark told me about this ages ago, but I just didn’t get it. Do the images and videos come through? Or is it more like Friendfeed? I wish RSS worked better; if it did, I’d just use that!
I cannot IMAGINE what it must be like to follow me via Jabber. You’d go insane from the noise.
I use Adium on my Mac and Pidgin on my PC, and neither include photos/videos. Just the text.
awesome! whatever wordpress does is always helpful…thx!
yihaaaa wonderful!!
Awesome 🙂
Neatness!
nice..!!
thanks to wordpress. 🙂
just getting better
That is pretty cool, but I can’t see myself using it.
excellent!!
I can’t actually say that I ever wanted blog and discussion updates in real time. If I went that route, I would surrender far much too control over where and when to direct my attention. I can’t follow twitter in real time either. How could a body get any work done otherwise?
I like the idea of instant feed updates, but I don’t ever want my blog to be anything like a chat room. If I want to chat, I’ll go to a chat room! But it’s still a good idea.
I’m with Mark Stoneman on this. I don’t want real time updates thanks. I can’t keep up with them. But I do like the fact that the ability to choose to use Jabber or not exists.
cool! awesome
something brilliant…It is more a lot more simple to use this than the e-mail subscription since it can bulk up in your inbox and mostly you just delete it without reading…this is nice 🙂
Sounds good….hmmm….staying in control of ones blog…..don’t know enough….still low tech newbie on the block…..have to look up and find out about Jabber…..but like the fact that wordpress keeps moving forward and giving us more! Thank you.
Sounds Good and i’ll have to try it out
wow, I like it
Another tool to lose control over my blog? Dunno…
More options the merrier.
I am going to give it a try
Yes, of course, I like the idea presented here.
thanks it works 🙂
Sounds like a lot of information to parse if real time.
What would make it more relevant is if another service could parse and then forward only the key sections and phrases of the posts and updates I follow based on the propensity of keywords in both the meta data of the blogs followed and the sum of the posts I write. Real time cliff notes.
Tried it but not for me. Can see the benefits but I’d rather wait 🙂
I’m afraid I’m a Luddite aligned with Ron’s comment. What modern technology does is allow us to do dumb distracted things faster and faster. No offense intended to WordPress, who in general run a good ship.
This sounds interesting, although it’s probably more useful for bloggers who have the time and internet access to check even for new posts and comments constantly.
I always wished I could get instant notification when my favorite bloggers updated. But I was failing to do it. Thanks very much.