Facebook chat supports XMPP, with ejabberd

Great post I will be linking to this for sure. I can’t wait until facebook deploys this to its users. Thanks for posting!

So, what about server federation??

Server federation (aka s2s, server to server) is not opened currently. The s2s port is closed.

By some experimenting, it looks like the login is .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) - but after authentication (only plaintext supported) the server responds with “service unavailable”. :)

This is great news!

@Håvard: Strange, for me authentication methods available are X-FACEBOOK-PLATFORM, DIGEST-MD5.
Moreover, on Facebook, the ID is an email address. Is that what you are using ?

Actually, you can get your own “id” on facebook. ( http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=90316352130 ) Perhaps they are using this?

- Håvard Sørbø (different Håvard)

@Håvard: I tried but no luck.

Can’t wait to see this working…

It was the user id I used. It’s referred to as “user name” in the norwegian translation of Facebook.

I used to use Facebook with Pidgin without the plugin.  Until last week when my computer was reformatted. Now I can’t find the settings that worked before.

@Cindy: you probably used a service that translates the Facebook system to XMPP, there’s a few of them around, but they are about as reliable as the plug-in for Pidgin from what I’ve heard

It’s great news to hear Facebook is finally going to use XMPP, I really don’t like being logged into the Facebook website just to talk to people (hit and miss), and the Pidgin plug-in has far too many flaws to be considered “stable”

Currently I get the same 503 Service Unavailable when attempting to log in, but I guess that’s normal as they haven’t got things set up yet!

Finally an update to Facebook people won’t be making groups to plead them to “change it back!” :-)

For your information. Netlog, the biggest European social network with over 55 million members already uses XMPP/Jabber for their web chat.

After taking more than a year on this, they better open up for federation!

I hear the very familiar sound of silence after another XMPP news flurry. Why doesn’t somebody come out and provide some details about this.

News about it ??

My guess is that this will never happen, unfortunately. There are two reasons. First, jabber chat won’t increase FB profit. Second, Microsoft is involved. Everybody knows they’re evil, and they even name all their services Evil nowadays, although trying to hide it by typing it backwards. Evil Messenger, Evil Spaces, Evil Hotmail, Evil Writer etc.

Don’t be evil!

Looking forward to the implementation of XMPP to Facebook, I enjoy going now and then to facebook page, every month or so, but would be a daily user if they had this service implemented so that my XMPP client could. Convergence of services is the way forward. I could then have all my googletalk, msn, yahoo and facebook correspondents on one client! I know I am repeating the obvious.
They would do well to integrate it in the desktop, instead of having everything on the browser all the time.

My dream, extra wide computer monitors, more than wide screens, with resolution of 2040×1200, to avoid having two screens, where I could have notifications on the right of the screen, and normal resolution for the actual tasks on the left. On your real desk, do you often have a paper covering the whole desk? No!!! We need to have some screen estate free for accessories.

Rereading all this, it seems very obscure, but I know what I mean

It’s all for nothing if people wont federate! just what we need more island communities.

@Erik.. Seriously, there is no conspiracy.. Not everything involves Microsoft. In fact, apparently Microsoft has even donated code to Firefox. They aren’t as bad as what people think. All the idiots like you who go around talking crap about companies like Microsoft make us all look bad (I bet you also go around telling people how secure OSX is too). I think Facebook actually said in the past they are working on it anyway..

The “I’m feeling lucky” button costs google millions per year but they did it. And in this case, it encourages people to use facebook, which is profitable, so it does make sense.

Btw, bad mouthing other companies won’t do anything for the cause you are pushing, unless its real. Why not get some proof?