[JDEV] Trepia

[Justin Karneges]

Hi all,

I'm sure many of you saw this on slashdot:  http://www.trepia.com/

Looks like an interesting idea, and the client reminds me of Rhymbox, but they 
don't use Jabber. :P :P :P

And an article for ya:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2083733/

It seems it suffers from the usual issues that Jabber does: no users, lame 
client.  Well, at least we are farther along than Trepia.  However, something 
tells me that with all this recent publicity, Trepia will get a ton of users.

IMO, a superior solution could be made using Jabber.  No need for Trepia to 
re-invent the IM client wheel again or waste their converts on a dead-end 
protocol.

We already have extendable presence, vcards, avatars, browsing ..

Btw, is there an open protocol for detecting LAN/Wi-Fi users?  I've heard that 
Apple's Rendevous can do this, but I don't know anything about it.  Trepia 
has the ability using a similar tactic, I think.

Anyway, I'd like to see a JEP and related server and client implementations by 
next week, thank you.

-Justin