Instant Messaging on Facebook
Posted by Nick O'Neill on June 19th, 2007 11:00 AM
There is a new desktop application in the works that is going to integrate an instant messenger application with the Facebook platform. This is pretty slick. The application will display all of your friends and allow video chat, video messaging, and more. Airwaves is a combination of Adobe’s AIR (previously Apollo) and the Yahoo! Messenger Vista client. While there has been much discussion throughout the blogosphere already, I couldn’t help but comment on it. This is what I always expected of an instant messaging client. I have always theorized about an instant messaging application that gives you access to all of your friend’s profiles, pictures, videos, and friends directly from the application itself. Having access to all of your contacts and their self-expressive media from one simple application would be a revolution in communications. The upcoming Trillian Astra is a perfect example of such an application. It integrates your MySpace (not Facebook …. boo!) IM account, personal profiles, widget plugins, web chat, and more! While the AirWaves applications looks like a far cry from the Trillian Astra (especially since one developer is working on it), it is a step in the right direction. I will be interested to see how this one turns out.
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June 20th, 2007 at 2:47 am
…and of course, this application, which is non-interoperable with Nate One, QQ, Gadu-gadu, AIM, ICQ, MSN/WLM, Yahoo, Xfire, is not based on XMPP/Jabber, the only open standard?
June 20th, 2007 at 3:47 am
…and of course, this application, which is non-interoperable with Nate One, QQ, Gadu-gadu, AIM, ICQ, MSN/WLM, Yahoo, Xfire, is not based on XMPP/Jabber, the only open standard?
June 29th, 2007 at 10:01 am
SoapBox is already available for facebook. It has alot of cool features. Plus it is based on XMPP.
http://www.soapbox.net/facebook.aspx
June 29th, 2007 at 11:01 am
SoapBox is already available for facebook. It has alot of cool features. Plus it is based on XMPP.
http://www.soapbox.net/facebook.aspx
June 29th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Yea we’re there and are experiencing remarkable uptake here.
We do photo messaging and video messaging as well as rooms too.
June 29th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Yea we’re there and are experiencing remarkable uptake here.
We do photo messaging and video messaging as well as rooms too.
September 15th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
I would do a bit more research.
“It integrates your MySpace (not Facebook …. boo!) IM account”
There is, indeed, a plugin, made by outside, for Trillian for facebook. A google search will yield it, or you could try the Trillian plugin list on the CS web-site. Might even work with Trillian Pro (so, all Trillites could use it this very minute!).
September 15th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
I would do a bit more research.
“It integrates your MySpace (not Facebook …. boo!) IM account”
There is, indeed, a plugin, made by outside, for Trillian for facebook. A google search will yield it, or you could try the Trillian plugin list on the CS web-site. Might even work with Trillian Pro (so, all Trillites could use it this very minute!).
September 25th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
[...] a brand new IM client for Facebook is going to be launching for Facebook in the coming weeks. I covered a chat application back in June which plans on leveraging the Facebook social graph. The application which at the time [...]
October 4th, 2007 at 10:11 am
need to know how to access and keep a log of AIM messages sent and recieved while on facebook. Thank you
October 4th, 2007 at 11:11 am
need to know how to access and keep a log of AIM messages sent and recieved while on facebook. Thank you
April 24th, 2008 at 12:49 am
This group is a petition to Facebook to support open-source protocol XMPP. This protocol will enable users to use Facebook chat with clients that support Jabber (eg. Adium, Pidgin).
Join this group to support the cause.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=11132259705
April 24th, 2008 at 1:49 am
This group is a petition to Facebook to support open-source protocol XMPP. This protocol will enable users to use Facebook chat with clients that support Jabber (eg. Adium, Pidgin).
Join this group to support the cause.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=11132259705