Pardon a moment of bouncing

[jducoeur]

CommYou is now talking to GTalk and LJTalk. Woot! I've been working towards this for weeks now, on the theory of "this *should* work". Now it does: in my test build, I can participate directly in conversations from IM.

In practice, it was pretty easy to get working once I had all the pieces in place -- Jabber's a nice protocol, and I should now be able to support pretty much any Jabber-based service. (I provide a little UI garnish for Google and LJ, the same way Twitter does, but deep down there's nothing special about them.)

It's always such a relief when a systems integration task *doesn't* turn into a nightmare...

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[msmemory.livejournal.com]

W00t!

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

So, I've never used the LJTalk IM system.

If I wanted to test out the interface to CommYou, what's my game?

[jducoeur]

At the moment, CommYou is still dependent on Facebook for login and authentication, so it would require getting a FB account. That'll change in a few weeks, when I incorporate LJ as a social network provider. But for now, Facebook is a necessity.

Given a Facebook account, it's pretty easy: you simply install the CommYou app, go into CommYou, and set your IM handle in the new Settings -> Personal Settings screen.

Paid LJ users get an automatic IM account, so "goldsquare@livejournal.com" already works: you should be able to use any Jabber-compliant client to log into it. (Personally, I use Pidgin to handle all my IM.) Your password is your LJ password. In fact, you even have your buddy list pre-seeded with your LJ friends -- it's fairly nice.

Mind, none of this is released yet: I'll be releasing 0.2, with the IM integration, next week. And it's *very* experimental yet, with lots of rough edges. But now we get to start figuring out how to really make it hum...

[crschmidt.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that *all* LJ users get an LJTalk account, not just paid ones?

http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=131 doesn't mention LJTalk as being specific to paid users.

[jducoeur]

Could well be -- I was sure that paid ones *do* get it, but I'm never entirely certain what is for paid members only and what's universal...

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

Your password is your LJ password.

Heh. Now I only have to figure that out %^).

[jducoeur]

Used Firefox to log in, and have since forgotten what the password was? If so, it's possible to get FF to divulge the password...