Yes, it’s true & great news: Facebook chat can now be used over any XMPP / Jabber client, like Pidgin and Kopete.
Go to http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php to see your settings. Here’s a screenshot of the settings:
Facebook jabber settings
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But..
no SSL
plaintext login only
no federation
So kind of one-way street, once again.
Appearing to support openness while staying closed.
You should take a look at OneSocialWeb, which extends XMPP in a federated social networking model. It’s due to release a reference server/client in a few weeks under an Apache 2 license.
I don’t want to blog-spam you with the article I wrote about it. Here’s a direct link, instead. http://onesocialweb.org/
I couldn’t get it to set up in Empathy, but Pidgin connects just fine. I kinda prefer Pidgin anyway.
I’m happy with using the pidgin-facebookchat plugin. Since I generally prefer Pidgin to Empathy as well.
http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-facebookchat/
naMe: Agreed, it ain’t perfect..
@Daeng Bo:Looks interesting – but what is it? The site really doesn’t tell it very clearly, some kind of ‘about’ page would be nice.
@Arthur: nice if you got it working in Pidgin!
@Christoph: you don’t need any extra plugin any more in Pidgin. Though I’m not sure if there are any differences how they befave in XMPP or plugin. But glad it works :)
Risto,
From the … ahem … About page on the linked site:
“The purpose of onesocialweb is to enable free, open, and decentralized social applications on the web. Its protocol can be used to turn any XMPP server into a full fledged social network, participating in the onesocialweb federation. The suite of extensions covers all the usual social networking use cases such as user profiles, relationships, activity streams and third party applications. In addition, it provides support for fine grained access control, realtime notification and collaboration.”
Daeng: Dang – did they just renew their site?! It was an awful blog mess when you posted that previous message, or I must have ended up on a wrong site. But yes, now it looks good and makes sense, thank you :) Loet’s hope it’ll ‘fly’!
Maybe you ended up at the wrong site. I’m pretty sure it’s the same as when I read it yesterday.
I have great hope, but low expectations. :(
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I managed to connect, can see friends when they log in etc., but the moment I try to send a message to any of them, they simply go “offline”, that is vanish from my buddy list in Pidgin and, of course, no message ever managed to go through :(
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