[Pidgin] #5473: Facebook and IMAP mail plugin request

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#5473: Facebook and IMAP mail plugin request
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  Reporter:  Mugunth         |       Owner:  lschiere                                             
      Type:  plugin request  |      Status:  new                                                  
  Priority:  minor           |   Milestone:  Plugin Suggested                                     
 Component:  unclassified    |     Version:  2.4.1                                                
Resolution:                  |    Keywords:  facebook, orkut, imap notification, social networking
   Pending:  0               |  
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Comment (by alienal):

 There is also a new IM feature available on facebook now (and probably
 soon an API):

 Quote from
 http://venturebeat.com/2008/03/18/significant-new-features-coming-from-
 facebook-more-privacy-and-chat/:

 "IM is a potentially major new way for Facebook to bring people back to
 its own site, and maybe it’s a way for people to connect through Facebook
 on other sites. “All of the ways we can extend out that information are
 important to us,” long-time executive and newly-named vice president of
 product management Mark Cohler says. “IM has been a pretty big project
 from a scalability and infrastructure point of view,” which explains why
 Facebook built its IM service from the ground up, and why right now it’s
 only available within Facebook.

 The company is still considering how to integrate Facebook with other IM
 services and web sites. It’s looking at offering a chat API for third-
 party developers, possibly integrating with IM protocol Jabbr — and Jabbr
 clients — so maybe a desktop IM application like Adium could pull in
 information about your Facebook friends."

 here is a link to the facebook API:
 http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/API

 I know that are already some desktop applications who manage facebook
 messages, but I don't know if they use an API or just scraping the html
 content:
 http://www.download.com/3120-20_4.html?tg=dl-20&qt=facebook&tag=srch

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