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Another win for XMPP: Facebook Chat opens up

From: "Callahan, Tim" <>
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Subject: Another win for XMPP: Facebook Chat opens up
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:52:41 -0500
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We brought this up a couple times last year, and it looked like it was going nowhere. Now Facebook Chat has opened up with XMPP. It looks like the real thing, and it is not client-specific like previous solutions. (I haven’t tried it yet.)

-Tim

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=297991732130

“February 10, 2010 at 11:35am”; “Starting today, the more than two billion chat messages sent on the site every day can be sent from your favorite desktop instant messaging client.”

Facebook Chat Now Available Everywhere
“To make Facebook Chat available everywhere, we are using the technology Jabber (XMPP), an open messaging protocol supported by most instant messaging software, including iChat, Pidgin, Adium, Miranda and more.”

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Another win for XMPP: Facebook Chat opens up