Chat bots can be fun or useful, but until now, deploying and maintaining a chat bot for Google Talk was difficult. Google has announced a new XMPP API that makes it easier to build your own chat bots with the Google App Engine. The XMPP support lets you create apps that exchange messages with … [Read more...]
Meebo Adds Facebook Chat
Several months ago, Meebo added an "unofficial" connection to Facebook chat. Backwards engineering Facebook's chat system proved unstable, and it was later pulled. Well, after working through official channels with Facebook and their API, Meebo has officially added Facebook Chat integration once … [Read more...]