With Livefyre, comments feed into the page live with no refresh needed.  The system is social: you follow friends and topics, and get notifications when interesting things happen across the web (e.g. “Your friend Julia has just commented on the article ‘The Internet Needs More Cats.’”).  We also do things like keep track of every user’s reputation for automatic moderation, and drive traffic to other bloggers based on user interest.  We want to shift website comments from being silo’d and disconnected, where hardly anyone knows who is leaving what comments and on what websites, towards a highly connected and social system, where website comments become as relevant to people as their Facebook news feed.

And yes, it is powered by XMPP.

Check out the Livefyre website, and be sure to read the TechCrunch article.

New in 0.14
- Added color options to the chat window.
- Can now specify a reason for kick/ban in groupchat.
- Improved User Info window, to show more fields and photo view/save.
- Support for Enchant as an alternative to Aspell.
- Commandline interface now supports choosing profile and setting status.
- D-BUS interface now supports setting status and indicating sleep/wake.
- Fixed voice calling compatibility bugs with Pidgin and Empathy.
- Various other minor improvements and bugfixes.

Final on December 2nd if no showstoppers are found.

New in 0.14
- Added color options to the chat window.
- Can now specify a reason for kick/ban in groupchat.
- Improved User Info window, to show more fields and photo view/save.
- Support for Enchant as an alternative to Aspell.
- Commandline interface now supports choosing profile and setting status.
- D-BUS interface now supports setting status and indicating sleep/wake.
- Fixed voice calling compatibility bugs with Pidgin and Empathy.
- Various other minor improvements and bugfixes.

Final on November 25th if no showstoppers are found.

New in 0.14
- Added color options to the chat window.
- Can now specify a reason for kick/ban in groupchat.
- Improved User Info window, to show more fields and photo view/save.
- Support for Enchant as an alternative to Aspell.
- Commandline interface now supports choosing profile and setting status.
- D-BUS interface now supports setting status and indicating sleep/wake.
- Fixed voice calling compatibility bugs with Pidgin and Empathy.
- Various other minor improvements and bugfixes.

Final on November 22nd if no showstoppers are found.

New in 0.14
- Added color options to the chat window.
- Can now specify a reason for kick/ban in groupchat.
- Improved User Info window, to show more fields and photo view/save.
- Support for Enchant as an alternative to Aspell.
- Commandline interface now supports choosing profile and setting status.
- D-BUS interface now supports setting status and indicating sleep/wake.
- Fixed voice calling compatibility bugs with Pidgin and Empathy.
- Various other minor improvements and bugfixes.

New in 0.13
- Voice calls (Jingle RTP).
- Basic XMPP URI handler.
- Ability to permanently trust certificates at connect time.
- Mini command system (Ctrl+7 in chat window).
- Various bugfixes.

If you are building from source (e.g. on Linux) and want voice calls, you will need to obtain the PsiMedia plugin separately.  On Linux, the plugin file is called libgstprovider.so, and must be put in Psi’s $LIBDIR/psi/plugins directory.  You’ll know it worked if “About GStreamer” appears in the Help menu.

Final on July 26th if no showstoppers are found.

New in 0.13
- Voice calls (Jingle RTP).
- Basic XMPP URI handler.
- Ability to permanantly trust certificates at connect time.
- Mini command system (Ctrl+7 in chat window).
- Various bugfixes.

If you are building from source (e.g. on Linux) and want voice calls, you will need to obtain the PsiMedia plugin separately.  On Linux, the plugin file is called libgstprovider.so, and must be put in Psi’s $LIBDIR/psi/plugins directory.  You’ll know it worked if “About GStreamer” appears in the Help menu.

Final on July 19th if no showstoppers are found.

New in 0.13
- Voice calls (Jingle RTP).
- Basic XMPP URI handler.
- Ability to permanantly trust certificates at connect time.
- Mini command system (Ctrl+7 in chat window).
- Various bugfixes.

If you are building from source (e.g. on Linux) and want voice calls, you will need to obtain the PsiMedia plugin separately.  On Linux, the plugin file is called libgstprovider.so, and must be put in Psi’s $LIBDIR/psi/plugins directory.  You’ll know it worked if “About GStreamer” appears in the Help menu.

Final on July 13th if no showstoppers are found.

New in 0.13
- Voice calls (Jingle RTP).
- Basic XMPP URI handler.
- Ability to permanantly trust certificates at connect time.
- Mini command system (Ctrl+7 in chat window).
- Various bugfixes.

If you are building from source (e.g. on Linux) and want voice calls, you will need to obtain the PsiMedia plugin separately.  On Linux, the plugin file is called libgstprovider.so, and must be put in Psi’s $LIBDIR/psi/plugins directory.  You’ll know it worked if “About GStreamer” appears in the Help menu.

Final on June 6th if no showstoppers are found.

New in 0.13
- Voice calls for Mac OS X and Linux (Jingle RTP).
- Basic XMPP URI handler.
- Ability to permanantly trust certificates at connect time.
- Mini command system (Ctrl+7 in chat window).
- Various bugfixes.

If you are building from source (e.g. on Linux) and want voice calls, you will need to obtain the PsiMedia plugin separately.  On Linux, the plugin file is called libgstprovider.so, and must be put in Psi’s $LIBDIR/psi/plugins directory.  You’ll know it worked if “About GStreamer” appears in the Help menu.