Hey gang,
Another big release for Spheres today. We are excited to be announcing the beginning of real time collaboration technologies into Spheres. We began by implementing presence in Spheres so now you will know when folks you are collaborating with are online. However you will also have the ability to set your online status in order to control what others may see.
You can see the online/offline status of your contacts via an icon next to their name:
Icon next to your name indicates current status.
You can also set what status you want others to see using the small menu in the bottom left corner of the Spheres UI. We have moved the “sign-out” function to this menu as well:
This menu allows you to change your status settings and sign out.
For the more technical folks, we have implemented Openfire, an open source XMPP server, for managing presence and push within the Spheres client. We are very excited about the potential this presents for Spheres as we add more real-time collaboration features to the application.
Look for some more updates on this and other fronts in the near future!
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