Facebook to Launch Jabber Support for Chat
Since Facebook Chat launched a few weeks ago, chat application developers have been clamoring for the ability to integrate Facebook Chat into their apps via Jabber/XMPP. Tonight, Facebook will announce upcoming support for a Jabber interface to Facebook Chat that will allow users of third parties to:
- Chat with your friends inside Facebook from the client of your choosing
- See which of your friends are online and view their profile pictures
- Set your status
Jabber support marks a major step forward in the evolution of Facebook Chat. Some applications, like Adium and Digsby, have already launched Facebook integration even though the company has not officially launched Jabber support.
However, Facebook hopes that application developers will take chat in new and creative directions given their ability to plug into Facebook’s already vibrant platform. New kinds of real-time applications are now possible given access to Facebook’s social graph. For example, Facebook chat client Social.im could help Facebook app developers reach users when they’re not on Facebook with new kinds of “system tray” notifications. Xfire, an IM client for gamers, could do the same. Where do you want to see Facebook chat integration?
May 13th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
any idea of timescale?
May 13th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
[...] new chat program in a lot of new places? Signs seem to indicate that as a distinct possibility. Justin Smith was first to report today that Facebook is intending to announce later this evening that their chat protocol will be able to [...]
May 14th, 2008 at 8:05 am
[...] online, talk to them, and even alter their own status from a remote Jabber-based application. The Inside Facebook blog broke word of the news prior to its official announcement on the Facebook Developers’ [...]
May 14th, 2008 at 11:12 am
[...] Source: Inside Facebook [...]
May 15th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
[...] Facebook to Launch Jabber Support for Chat INSIDE FACEBOOK Since Facebook Chat launched a few weeks ago, chat application developers have been clamoring for the ability to integrate Facebook Chat into their apps via Jabber/XMPP. Tonight, Facebook will announce upcoming support for a Jabber interface to Facebook Chat that will allow users of third parties to: Chat with your friends inside Facebook from the client of your choosing; See which of your friends are online and view their profile pictures; Set your status. Jabber support marks a major step forward in the evolution of Facebook Chat. Some applications, like Adium and Digsby, have already launched Facebook integration even though the company has not officially launched Jabber support. Source> [...]
August 2nd, 2008 at 9:43 am
“Where do you want to see Facebook chat integration?”
On my blackberry!
September 24th, 2008 at 2:02 am
Ok, Jabber support… but which server/port/user?
Also, the integration in Adium and Digsby was around AJAX reversal engineering, not Jabber.
January 3rd, 2009 at 2:46 pm
This announcement is over 6 months old. Have you forgotten about it?
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:30 am
[...] Jabber support [...]
March 31st, 2009 at 4:45 pm
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November 5th, 2009 at 11:34 am
[...] has been working on Jabber support for Facebook Chat for a while, but it appears the service may be closer to launching. IM server [...]
November 5th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Beautiful news, I thought they’d given up on the idea.
Hopefully this will get AOL and Microsoft to return to working on Jabber support for AIM and Live messenger.
February 21st, 2010 at 8:11 am
can not chat on face book
April 30th, 2013 at 1:03 pm
[...] XMPP, and different vendors have tried committing to them. But it has always been half hearted: when Facebook released Jabber compatibility for its chat application years ago, it did so without encryption—a move that could be considered [...]