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Facebook Chat Officialy Coming To Empathy In Lucid

Empathy in Lucid will have a pre-configured option for adding a Facebook Chat account thanks to Facebook opening up their Facebook Chat protocol earlier this week. Chatting to your Facebook contacts via most multi-protocol clients is now a snap, and the Empathy devs are going to make it even easier by pre-configuring the set-up for [...]

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Facebook Chat in Pidgin & Empathy With No Plugins!

Facebook made their ‘Facebook chat’ protocol all awesome and nice today by adding support for the Jabber/XMPP protocol. This means you can have facebook chat in Pidgin, Empathy, etc without the need for buggy third-party plugins! Hoorah! Casey Ho, Pidgin dev supremo, blogged the following guide for adding Facebook chat in Pidgin: – For the [...]

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Facebook Chat Plugin For Pidgin – Working Version

The facebook-chat plugin for Pidgin available in Ubuntu’s repositories is out-of-date and doesn’t work with recent versions of Pidgin spitting out “wrong-credentials” pop-ups and the like. Instead you’ll want to use the most recent version over at the plug-in’s Google Code page – which comes in a hand .deb for for easy-peasy one-click installation. You’ll [...]

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