Facebook Now Supports Jabber/XMPP 174
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.
changes (Score:1, Funny)
first :), finally, facebook does something right besides the creation of the site itself
plausible deniability at work (Score:3, Funny)
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dude, dissing FaceBook on ./ AND getting modded Troll for it is an awesome feat!
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He's too busy writing a GUI interface in visual basic to see if he can track the killer's IP address.
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