Support for Facebook

Facebook is probably the biggest and the most used social website. It allows people to communicate in many different ways with other Facebook members for free.

As a communication tool, Facebook allows users to exchange messages. This possibility is very suitable to IM clients as having a conversation using Facebook messages is basically the same thing as chatting using other IM protocols like Jabber, MSN, …

It seems that some IM clients already have some Facebook support via plugins (Trillian, AIM ?, others ?).

The idea is to implement Facebook support in SIP Communicator. The user should be able to create an account using the informations of his own Facebook account, to manage his Facebook contacts and communicate with them using Facebook messages that they should see using the main website.

References:
Facebook main page
http://www.facebook.com

The Facebook plugin for Trillian
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2265190850

Other SIP Communicator GSoC Projects
http://gsoc.sip-communicator.org

SIP Communicator Developer Documentation
http://www.sip-communicator.org/index.php/Documentation/DeveloperDocumentation

The official SIP Communicator website
http://www.sip-communicator.org