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Instant messaging (IM) is a form of communication over the Internet, that offers quick transmission of text-based messages from sender to receiver.

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WhatsApp - writing a clone (iphone, android, wp7)

I am trying to create a instant messaging app very much like whatsapp I suppose. My resources I have available to me are Server development in C# (REST Service, dedicated server app etc) And currently an android development platform using eclipse…
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Instant messages in MVC application

I need your help to solve next issue: I am developing MVC application and want to send instant messages between users. This message will ne standard - it's like notification. I am thinking about two optins: use XMPP protocot, but I don't need the…
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pthread other than wait and signal

I'm developing an instant messaging application. This is the situation which I need help: A routine in my code fgets() the message the user has entered. Now I need to wake up a thread which has a routine to send the message to the socket etc. I'm…
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Is there any way to connect to the Facebook chat service without using the XMPP protocol?

I am trying to create an application that will basically be a Linux command line messenger app just for Facebook chat. When you connect to facebook chat using the XMPProtocol, you can send instant messages to all of your friends but you can only see…
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Is there a product that provides private messaging ala Facebook Messages/Twitter DMs?

My web app needs a private messaging system just like Facebook Messages or Twitter DM. I found a bunch of stuff that does real-time instant messaging, but they don't store the messages like a typical PM system does. Plenty of sites/apps has a PM…
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File transfer using libpurple

I'm kind of stuck trying to code an example of file transfer using libpurple. My first try was to reuse the nullclient example from the libpurple/examples source directory and call serv_send_file. That seems to compile and execute fine but then…
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Is the AMQP protocol suitable for building web based instant messaging applications?

At the moment our infrastructure doesn't support XMPP but this is what the big boys (Facebook, Google) seem to use as their protocol of choice. Is there anything that makes XMPP particularly suited to this application compared AMQP? In the end I…
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creating gtalk type app using django

I am learning Python and Django. I want to create a Gtalk type of application using Django and Python. Please tell me where I can find documentation that will help me build my application. Mainly I want to know how to determine when anyone logs in…
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Is it possible to use public XMPP servers to create private chat rooms?

We are developing web application to manage associations, that is we have multiple associations and we should be able to create 1 room (or group) per association and programmatically log users on the room so they cannot pretend to be other person.…
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XMPP Client incompabilities

I'm currently working on a project that is building a java-based desktop application to interface with a website. We want to incorporate IM capabilities, so we decided to use XMPP. The problem is our application has other features, and anyone using…
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How to manage online users in IM applications such as GTalk, Skype etc

Do they keep an online user list in a database and update it with every login and logout event, and run queries for online friends? What about scalability? Are there better solutions?
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XMPP HTTP Binding

According to the wiki, XMPP could use HTTP in two ways: one is polling and other one is binding. This binding model of notification is more efficient than polling, where many of the polls return no new data. Can anybody explain to me, how it work…
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Trillian, digsby or Pidgin over Lan?

Does anyone know if it is possible to adapt one of these Messengers in order to use them also over LAN?
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Launch Office Communicator from asp.net

On an intranet I am building there is a need to have instant messaging. The client already uses the Office Communicator application so I would like to use that if possible. The Intranet will have an employee directory and I would like to have a…
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Is it possible to use Prometheus alerting in instant messaging such as Whatsapp or Telegram?

My question is if we can use the alerts part of Prometheus to show them in Whatsapp or some kind of instant messaging. Thank you very much from a newbie in this.
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