Facebook chat now supports jabber [1]. A Facebook source could now simply extend the jabber source, adding some cosmetic bits like taking a vanity url / profile id and turning that into the required identifer (<username>@chat.facebook.com where <username> is the vanity name or u<profile_id>) and scraping facebook for the user's real name.
Facebook chat now supports jabber [1]. A Facebook source could now simply extend the jabber source, adding some cosmetic bits like taking a vanity url / profile id and turning that into the required identifer (<username> @chat.facebook. com where <username> is the vanity name or u<profile_id>) and scraping facebook for the user's real name.
[1] http:// developers. facebook. com/news. php?blog= 1&story= 361