#im

"The IMified platform makes it amazingly easy to connect your existing applications to instant messaging networks or create stand alone IM bots for fun or getting work done. "

"Popular online activity-monitoring service FriendFeed just announced IM integration and the way they implemented it is really smart. I'm now getting an IM every time someone comments on one of my items in FriendFeed, and I can reply with a comment on that very same item from inside my IM client. It's a great way to keep on top of conversations and keep them flowing. "

Interesting chat groups app with jabber, gtalk, feeds, email, and web interface

"Open AIM continues to lead the way with providing the most powerful and flexible platform to power your communication, collaboration, and social networking experiences. "

"So I ran to write a bot that would make use of the oh-so-beautifully-simple Prologue interface combined with its WordPress goodness (read “available XML-RPC, tagging, easy to deploy, includes an admin interface, out-of-the-box!”) and give me the Twit

"The polling system is gone. TiVo is using XMPP now instead."

"Timer is a Twitter bot that helps you set an alarm for things you need to remember."

"Like Twitter, Meshly is an instant blogging application, like del.icio.us it is about saving links, and it has a voting component that closely resembles digg."

"5 years from now, Grid services that are not already on Web will be based on instant messaging, and XMPP/Atom/RDF will be the key Grid transfer protocols and formats."

"I got things working in a near ideal way by combining Bip, Bitlbee, SSH, Screen, irssi, and X-Chat Gnome."

I totally hadn't heard about this Jabber server! 'your existing MeFi login (you might need to add "@metafilter.com" in your username field, depending on the jabber client)'

Ho-lee shit. This excites me orders of magnitude more than GTalk. "A lot of you have noticed that we wrote a Jabber server, djabberd, and thus it should come as no surprise that we're launching a LiveJournal-integrated Jabber service."

"Availabot is a physical representation of presence in Instant Messenger applications."

"By combining instant messaging with RSS (Really Simple Syndication), a whole new publishing infrastructure has been born."

"MAKEbot is an Instant Message bot you can talk to and get the latest news, "pings", photos, bookmarks, projects, audio/video and more from MAKE from any computer or your phone!"

"This week my employer* launched the beta of mabber, a web- and mobile-based instant messaging service."

"The TOC2 protocol is an updated version of the TOC protocol, or "Talk to OSCAR" protocol. Its existence was never documented by AOL and it is only used in a few AOL Instant Messenger clients."

"I'd like to let everybody know that Google will support open server-to-server federation"

"As it stands now (the day the beta launched), Google Talk speaks the Jabber protocol but it doesn't enable the server to server (S2S) communication."

"When will it be possible to send messages between users on different jabber services?"

"Service choice is something you have with email and, for the most part, with your regular phone service today."

This guide explains how to create an AIM/MSN bot of your very own.

"SQL Logging implements logging from the Mac OS X instant messaging program Adium directly into a PostgreSQL database."