More KDE 4: Part 1/4 about Decibel

Is there some kind of competition going on about writing about KDE 4? Recently lots of KDE 4 related articles have been published on "The Dot" and elsewhere. I'm not complaining though, I love reading about it and I'm really looking forward to KDE 4. The latest article is about Decibel:

People use their computers to communicate with others. Usually, they want to communicate as close to real-time as possible. Email, instant messaging, and Voice over IP (VoIP), are some of the different ways people communicate using their computers. Each of these has its strengths and weaknesses. Ironically, each of these means of communication do not talk very well with other means of communication.

This is where Decibel comes in. Decibel is a service, not an application. The goal of Decibel is to create a bridge between different communication technologies. Decibel will make it easy to integrate real-time communication technologies into applications, Tobias says. Decibel provides a central storage place for settings of real-time communications. This will allow one communication application (say, email) to talk to another communication application (say, instant messaging) without having to learn a new language.

I'm looking forward to the rest of this series for sure :)