Highlights from DrupalCon DC: XMPP Framework

OHO, a certified Acquia Drupal partner, had a significant presence at DrupalCon DC last week. OHO developers, designers, and project managers headed down from Boston to attend dozens of sessions, take pages & pages of notes, and grow a hat size or two. This week, the OHO blog will cover some of our favorite parts of the conference.
 
The "Drupal with XMPP Integration" session was a jaw-dropper. XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) is an open standard IM protocol, most notably utilized by Google Talk. Darren Ferguson and his crew have made an outstanding set of modules that allow for real-time XMPP chat within a Drupal site!
 
The framework can be found here, and the presentation can be found here.