[Adium-devl] Quickie point-out: Facebook chat

[Eric Richie]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Renee <katlynnhope at yahoo.com> wrote:

> http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=12811122130
> Adium is great because of how well it keeps up with various IM protocols..
> so I was wondering if someone would like to look at the new FaceBook chat.
>  I was looking around at it, as it just 'showed up' today on my Facebook
> page.
> The IM they are using is new, and not open to third-party devs yet, but
> Facebook is generally good about opening up their insides so developers can
> use their various apps, codes and protocols.  FaceBook is a massive
> social-network (one of the biggest, maybe the most popular right now?) - so
> I thought looking at the new chat would be a good idea.  I've already
> contacted some of their team for help with other apps and plugins for FB,
> and they always were nice and eager to help out.
> So yeah - just wanted to point this out.  Anyone with FB should take a
> quick peek, and see their new chat system (I actually just found out not
> everyone has the chat enabled yet, but most people do by now).  I'll be the
> first volunteer to help out with this if needed.
> (and insider info - FB should be adding in voice/video to their chat down
> the line, perhaps their voice/video system would be more 'friendly' and open
> to devs for other apps to use - but I only heard a bit about the
> voice/video, and it sounded like a ways off... but still, would be nice to
> have a voice/video that is usable)
>
>
> -Renee AKA the little pointer outer
>

File a libpurple ticket on Pidgin's trac:
http://developer.pidgin.im/

We'll get it once they support it. We don't normally implement protocols on
our own.
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