Facebook Chat over XMPP

[Colin Barrett]

On Feb 11, 2010, at 8:30 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> On Feb 11, 2010, at 09:45:03, Joe Hildebrand wrote:
>> The big win is that people won't have to figure out what their JID is.
> 
> Their JID is <facebook-username>@chat.facebook.com. This should be trivial for us to fill out automatically; the user need only enter their Facebook username.

It's possible we could use Facebook's API to do this discovery automatically. I'm not terribly familiar with it, but considering the user is going to give us their password, it seems likely we could ask them FB to return their FB username. We might even be able to repurpose (or at least examine) some of their iPhone code.

-Colin