Over a year ago , Facebook announced that they planned to support Facebook Chat over XMPP/Jabber, the same protocol that Google Talk uses.Yesterday, though, Facebook announced that in addition to the AIM partnership, the XMPP/Jabber implementation had finally come to fruition.

Facebook has also added the necessary Connect hooks so any developer can implement Facebook Chat on their site or web app.

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One often hears some slang words like woot and ASL on internet chats and Emails and wonders what do these words actually mean, these are basically slangs used on the WWW and here is a brief list of some common and popular slang words used on the Internet, for a comprehensive and daily updated list of such terms you can always check out  UrbanDictionary.com.

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1337 (written in ASCII) – From the word Leet, derived from the word elite
2 – too, or to
4 – For

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Ever wished to have a Yahoo Webcam chat in your Linux but all you could get was a text chat using pidgin , well for those who did not knew this there is a special multi protocol IM client ( these are those that support multiple chat networks like aol,msn,yahoo,gtalk etc .) it’s name is KOPETE and believe me it is a wonderful. It comes already installed with KDE version of  Ubuntu ie. Kubuntu  but you can get it installed on Ubuntu Gnome from your Synaptic package manager

Using Kopete, you can easily have a Webcam chat with your friends inside Linux .

Finally yahoo launched it’s messenger 9.0 and removed that beta after it ‘s name , so yahoo messenger 9.0 is finally out  "No more beta" and you can download it from

http://messenger.yahoo.com/

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Google has implemented the feature of being invisible in the gmail chat, google talk gadget and  google talk for Iphone , Now if you ever want to know that someone is really offline or has just gone invisible then here is a small trick .

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