I got inspired.

I was up until 4am last night, compiling, tinkering and playing with some other protocols added to RTCOMM. Here's what I've worked on and their status.

Facebook Chat
- Works, allows sending/receiving of messages
- Does not show online/offline status for friends
- Friends shown are just recent friends online, just like the Facebook chat on the site doesn't show offline friends.
- Seems to cause the Contacts app to have trouble with status for other protocols, probably because of something missing or misconfigured on my part.

Twitter
- Works very well
- Opens a new chat window when you come online which shows all recent tweets from friends (see above screenshot)
- Typing into the window sends your text as a new tweet
- Does not show anyone as a contact under Twitter except for Twitter.com (though I will try out another plugin that does do this soon)

Identi.ca
- Works the exact same way as Twitter, see everything above except I don't have another plugin to try out.
- Should work also with Laconica servers, but I didn't test it.

QQ
- Doesn't work currently, must force 2008 protocol first

MySpaceIM
- Doesn't work currently, not sure why yet

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Other plugins that I will be trying out and hopefully packaging at some point include Skype (integrates contacts from the Skype app, but Skype must remain open), XFire, SIPE (MS Office Communicator), another Twitter plugin and maybe the Off The Record plugin that a lot of you have asked about over the years.

More good news, some Collabora and some Nokia employees have stated they will try to help out and make sure we get as many of them working as possible on Fremantle as well as Diablo.

I'll keep updating this thread with major milestones... for the low-down on the actual day-to-day hacking, follow me on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/zerojay/).

Oh yeah, also forgot... very good chance that all these plugins can also be used simply with Pidgin... as long as it's not too old anyways.