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Fri, 12 Feb 2010

Facebook and XMPP

So Facebook Chat now uses XMPP. And the Empathy development version has some nice integration.

This could mean that I can finally chat to non-Jabber using friends on a regular basis. It's been nearly four years since I switched from MSN to Jabber, and I think I lost contact with a lot of people. Facebook chat via AJAX is unreliable, and my visits to the site are quite irregular, so hopefully this will work around both problems.

I for one welcome our social network monopoly overlords…

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 00:29 | Tags: , , , | Comments (2)

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Posted by Roguelazer at Fri Feb 12 02:42:35 2010
Except for the fact that Facebook doesn't allow federation. You can only talk to Facebook users if you're connected through Facebook. It's sad. :-(

Posted by Tim Retout at Fri Feb 12 10:28:28 2010
Yeah, but it's good that Facebook didn't invent Yet Another IM Protocol.  It's one more step to XMPP becoming the de-facto standard IM protocol, and we can worry about federation later.

It's an open standard which free software can implement on a level playing field, which is what makes MSN Messenger so annoying.

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