====== XMPP (Jabber) Tips ======

No more proprietary IM services! See [[wp>xmpp|Introduction]]

You can choose from [[http://www.jabberes.org/servers/|list 1]] and [[http://xmpp.org/services/|list 2]] of public XMPP Servers or [[wp>List_of_XMPP_server_software|set up your own]]. For me an account on http://jabber.phcn.de/ works fine.

As of 2009-12 / Slack13.0 for me Kopete worked better than Pidgin. Particularly the setup of a different [[wp>Jabber#Connecting_to_other_protocols|transport]] like ICQ was easy to set up.

A good web based XMPP client is Jwchat. It can be [[http://blog.jwchat.org/jwchat/|downloaded]] or [[http://jwchat.org/|used directly]].

More clients can be found at [[http://xmpp.org/software/clients.shtml|xmpp.org]] or at the [[wp>List_of_XMPP_client_software]]. Empathy seems to support video and may be worth a try.