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Facebook Now Supports Jabber/XMPP

Posted by timothy on from the cross-pollination-nation dept.

supersloshy writes "Facebook Chat has so far only been meant to be used in a web browser, and instant messaging applications have had a hard time implementing its undocumented protocol. Today, Facebook is making this job much easier by enabling support for XMPP to access its chat service. AOL's AIM and the Empathy Instant Messenger are also including pre-set Facebook options, due to already supporting XMPP." Here are instructions for setting up XMPP Facebook chat with popular instant messaging clients, including Pidgin and Adium.

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  1. changes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    first :), finally, facebook does something right besides the creation of the site itself

    1. Re:changes by socceroos · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm not, thats about television.........

    2. Re:changes by JustOK · · Score: 5, Funny

      dude, dissing FaceBook on ./ AND getting modded Troll for it is an awesome feat!

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    3. Re:changes by mysidia · · Score: 2, Funny

      He's too busy writing a GUI interface in visual basic to see if he can track the killer's IP address.

  2. plausible deniability at work by mwilliamson · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've been using the pidgin plugin for a while now, but it seems a little flaky. This will be rather nice to have a standards-based protocol. This also means I have plausible deniability now as to whether or not I'm logged into facebook all day. ;-)

  3. Re:No Kopete? by socceroos · · Score: 4, Funny

    There is for Kopete, because it will make us KDEers feel important.

  4. Re:Steam Chat by vegiVamp · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do not press this button.

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