Facebook chat now supports Jabber!

February 11, 2010 in Internet | 11 comments

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

Facebook jabber settings

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  1. naMe’s avatar

    naMe on February 11, 2010 at 1:06 pm

    But..
    no SSL
    plaintext login only

    no federation
    So kind of one-way street, once again.

    Appearing to support openness while staying closed.

  2. Daeng Bo’s avatar

    Daeng Bo on February 11, 2010 at 3:22 pm

    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/

  3. Arthur’s avatar

    Arthur on February 11, 2010 at 5:39 pm

    I couldn’t get it to set up in Empathy, but Pidgin connects just fine. I kinda prefer Pidgin anyway.

  4. Christoph Shipley’s avatar

    Christoph Shipley on February 12, 2010 at 5:42 pm

    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/

  5. Risto H. Kurppa’s avatar

    Risto H. Kurppa on February 12, 2010 at 6:33 pm

    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 :)

  6. Daeng Bo’s avatar

    Daeng Bo on February 12, 2010 at 7:10 pm

    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.”

  7. Risto H. Kurppa’s avatar

    Risto H. Kurppa on February 12, 2010 at 7:42 pm

    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’!

  8. Daeng Bo’s avatar

    Daeng Bo on February 12, 2010 at 8:04 pm

    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. :(

  10. Meho R.’s avatar

    Meho R. on February 14, 2010 at 5:55 pm

    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 :(