Notification of instant outlining over instant messaging is now available. This is a big deal. Instant outlines require rapid delivery in order to live up to the name instant. That is easily possible using an RCS and Radio in a permissive environment (on a LAN for example) via publication/subscription built into UserLand’s tools. It gets difficult on the open Internet were everyone is behind a firewall or NAT because there isn’t an easy way to “push” notification to Radio on the desktop. To simulate an instant experience, Radio would need to check the files on the server every minute or so, which of course chews up bandwidth. This implementation solves this by using connections to commonly used instant messaging systems (AIM and Jabber) as a notification mechanism. Nice. There are lots of things that this notification system is going to make possible. [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]
