Psyced is a distributed chat and messaging system based on the Protocol for SYnchronous Conferencing.

PSYC is multicast and routed between servers and clients in a scalable and efficient way, but users can also comfortably use IRC clients, telnet, Webchat, WAP or Jabber to enter the network.

Psyced also communicates with the network of Jabber/XMPP servers and hosts programmable chatrooms for all of these technologies at once.

Psyced will also provide gateways to several IRC networks, but unlike IRC, everyone is able to run a server and be an equal member of the PSYC network.

If you know IRC then imagine something that brings you all the features of IRC but none of its weaknesses, because technically PSYC is totally different from IRC.

Psyced isn't just a PSYC server, it also simulates the functionality of PSYC clients allowing all sorts of dumb to very elaborate client applications to enter PSYCspace, from telnet over Java applets up to IRC, XMPP (Jabber) and PSYC clients.

PSYCspace itself is much more like the web than like an IRC network: Every internet address can run its own PSYC server and become equal part of the PSYC network - No hierarchies, no privileges for administrators, except - of course - the privilege to decide upon rooms and people you are hosting on your own server.

And should you misuse your powers, your friends will simply move on to a friendlier server - so you better be a good administrator.

Here are some key features of "Psyced":

· PSYC and psyced are open-source (GPL)
· Connect using PSYC
· Connect using IRC clients
· Connect using XMPP/Jabber™ clients
· Connect using a java applet
· Connect using telnet
· Connect through other PSYC servers
· Connect via the outer XMPP/Jabber network
· Contains a simple HTTP-server, so that rooms can serve their history (x last lines of chat) and who is in them. Also, this server makes psyced a fine web application server, for blogs and boards and such. Probably the only one with completely natural multiuser support.
· All of the access protocols mentioned above are also available in their TLS/SSL encrypted variants.
· psyced provides many functions known from earlier chat systems and classic IRC clients, check out the psyced user manual for details.
· psyced is easy to adapt to your needs. No really. I mean it.
· Thanks to the other PSYC implementations it is possible to write amazing applications, gateways and clients in other programming languages that make use of the powers of psyced.