Category Archives: jabber

libjingle with your own signaling or your own XMPP library

Just sharing the link here, since I was googling for far too long to dig it out.

How To Use STUN In Applications

It’s surprising this is found as a part of the manual for Maemo, the fantastic OS that moved in the right direction, but was practically abandoned by Nokia.

NOTE: This is apparently a guide for the outdated libjingle 0.3.0. I can’t find any guide for the new version of libjingle.

Facebook Chat on Jabber

If you use Facebook and XMPP, rejoice. You can now get spammed via your favorite Jabber client: iChat, Pidgin, Adium, Psi, Finch, Meebo or any other that allows you to configure custom server (gtalk not included).

Federationing not supported.

Probably a fail for privacy, but a win for openness.

Instructions

Username: username@chat.facebook.com
Server: chat.facebook.com
Port: 5222
SSL: No
Allow plaintext authentication: No

Your username is your “vanity URL” suffix, for example firstlast in http://www.facebook.com/firstlast – so create this alias if you didn’t already.

Meebo and Jabber

In case you didn’t know, Meebo has its own Jabber server. If you want to log into your Meebo account without a Javascript-capable browser just to contact your Meebo buddies (meaning you won’t be logging into MSN, etc.) you can just connect to Jabber domain “meebo.org” with your username. That is, “USERNAME@meebo.org“. Notice the .ORG instead of .COM.

Since I don’t usually use Meebo for contacting buddies, I can see one much greater benefit here: you can be contacted using MeeboMe Widgets without using Meebo itself. Great for providing tech support in case you need something like that, especially if it’s possible to log in from multiple workstations into same Jabber account like with Gtalk. I have yet not tried if this is possible, but I sincerely hope it is.

Meebo has just gotten perfect for me ;)