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LiveJournal adds Jabber messaging
Those that have been keeping up with Six Apart's open source work may be aware of DJabberd, which is a framework for building Jabber chat servers (Jabber, of course, being the open IM protocol that powers Google Talk/Gmail Chat). It's unsurprising, then, that the company has just announced the integration of a Jabber server into LiveJournal. Though I use the term "integration" loosely--for now it's just a Jabber server running on livejournal.com--you can now use any Jabber client, like iChat, Gaim, Trillian Pro, Adium X, or Google Talk, to chat with other Jabber users. The service seems to be going by the name "LJ Talk," and you can get on right now using your LiveJournal username and password and livejournal.com for the server. Be aware, however, that it's still very beta, and every time you connect (which will be often, as disconnections are frequent) you'll get a message from the server that says "LJ Talk is currently a pre-alpha service lacking tons of features and probably with a bunch of bugs. We're actively developing it, constantly restarting it with new stuff. So just don't be surprised if the service goes up and down a lot." And it does. Still, pretty cool. More details can be found in the announcement on lj_dev.[Via Waxy.org]
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