A couple of weeks ago the Facebook folks announced their support for Jabber/XMPP. If you’re a Facebook fan this is a big deal as that announcement opens up FB chat to all of the multi-protocol IM applications. No more having to endure the web-based version.
If you’re a Pidgin user, as I am, check out this how-to article on Casey Ho’s blog. The Facebook help center also has a page up on how to configure for iChat, Adium and (again) Pidgin. Pretty straight-forward to do – it took just a few seconds for me to configure Pidgin to add facebook chat.
Now, I have pidgin running almost all day long for work IM. Will I always have Facebook IM enabled as well? Oh heck no. That would be madness! But I might experiment with keeping it going in the evenings and see how it works out. Just from watching this evening it is interesting to watch people come and go.
Facebook isn’t often praised for being “open” but I think this is a step in the right direction.
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