Testing out Frank the Jabber Bot

[katster]

Whee! Look at me! I'm actually posting from my IM client! Thanks, Frank the LJ Bot!

Comments

[chaoswolf]

Can you teach me how to get a jabber account? I don't have one yet...

[katster.livejournal.com]

Well, technically, you have a jabber account. It happens to be:

u: chaoswolf@livejournal.com
p: whatever your LJ password is.

The trick is finding a client that will talk Jabber. I use Trillian Pro on my laptop, but that costs money, and I think you're a Mac user anyway. I hear rumors that ichat supports Jabber on the Mac side, though.

Here's the page on LJtalk.

Also, Google Talk is a Jabber implementation as well, so if you have a gmail address, you can use that. Right now, Google folk can't talk to LJ folk easily, but that'll change as the LJ folk get their network running a bit better.

-kat

[chaoswolf]

Yeah, though you forget one thing: I've got a windoze desktop w/ Trillian Pro on it.

[katster.livejournal.com]

Ah, silly me.

I couldn't quite remember. :)

Anyway, it's pretty easy to set up under Trillian. I think they've got the Jabber plugin already installed and you just have to enter the account with it. The LJ one was easy to set up there, Google took a little more work (although there's an instruction page there too...)

-kat