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It is a serverless IM service (you automatically see all connected individuals on the same LAN) based on XMPP Link-Local messaging. It goes by many names, and it's not clear to me what library implements it and how, but it is actually available on lots of platforms (it comes from OSX, as Bonjour is actually the auto-discovery service of OSX, but it is available for windows at least through pidgin, and it works great on ubuntu on empathy and pidgin).
Some exemple of implentation:
- "People nearby" in ubuntu (I think it's empathy -> telepathy-salut -> link-local xmpp)
- "Bonjour" in pidgin (was available for the N900 with the "Bonjour and Sametime" package)
- "Salut" or "iChat" on other platforms...

It's usefull for chatting with people in the same location as you (conferences, classrooms, ...), your family in your house, or just for copy pasting links to/from your phone/PC to another PC.
I'm sorry I can't really help much further or even assess the difficulty of including/activating it, but please let me know what you think about it.