Flutterby™! : Messaging on the "Internet of Things"

Speaking of the "Internet of Things", a few from a tab dump:

GigaOm: Qualcomm’s decidedly different plan to connect your devices to the internet of things is the press release for AllJoyn: Proximity Based Peer-To-Peer Mobile Application Development Framework. Right now looks more like a system for phone-to-phone communication, but there are a whole lot of places where a better short-range system than Bluetooth would be awesome.

MQTT - Message Queuing Telemetry Transport is a publish-and-subscribe protocol for lightweight low-bandwidth data. Mihini is a Lua-based framework and runtime that I believe uses it. Need to explore more.