congratulations to everyone at the jabber.org for announcing that there are, “…nearly 10 million end users of software based on the open Jabber/XMPP protocol.”. there are, of course, some guestimates in the numbers, but all things considered it’s a remarkable accomplishment.

i’m also happy to have discovered that the os x “nitro” jabber client is a lot more stable than the last time i tried it, or at least the development build i’m running is solid. although i like proteus because it’s an “integrated” client for those times that i have to use other IM systems, its jabber client implementation is buggy and loses connections to the server.