NokiaBetaLabs

Hey,

This is a difficult item for me to comment. I can totally agree that this would be needed and is requested by lot of our consumers, but honestly, commenting on this is off-limits for me.

What I can tell you is, that there are some "IM bots" that enable certain degree of interworking to other Social Networks, e.g. try FriendFeed IM notifications or Ping.FM IM bot.

-Kristian

Thanks for your support Jamaal.

And let me just emphasize that we want our IM solution to be connected. That's why we build our service on XMPP - which is an open standard for Instant Messaging, that enables interconnecting with other networks using the same protocol by default.

-Kristian

I don't know too much about XMPP. Everyone I IM with is on FB, MSN or BB Messenger; none of which are currently compatible.

It's ok though, things may change in the future

To those willing to chat with people on non-xmpp networks (MSN, ICQ, Yahoo etc.) - this can be done right away, no support from the "Contacts on Ovi" application is necessary for that. XMPP allows so called "transports", which are gateways to other, arbitrary, IM networks. There are a few open for public use out there, google for them. One caveat is that to initially subscribe to such transport you need to log in to your ovi account with a capable XMPP client (e.g. Gajim). After that, you will see e.g. your ICQ buddies as "1234567@icq.publicgateway.net" in your ovi contact list.

Nokia might want to run such gateways on its own xmpp server @ovi.com, and add the "subscribe to a service" functionality to the client application, to make the process more straightforward. But even if it does not do that, it is still possible for the user do do it by him/herself.

Eugene

Does this require any manual / laborious intervention from the other party? (ie. the MSN user? )
Nope.
But! All of a sudden, this Sunday the transport stopped working for me. My gateway works fine with other (not ovi.com) server, but through the ovi.com server I don't see my ICQ contacts anymore, even through other user agents. Connection to the server exists, I can execute commands, but the icq buddies do not show up in the roster. The messages still pass in both directions.

I am seeing more and more IM programs that allows interoperability between YM, MSN, GTalk, FB Chat, and Skype. I would love to see Ovi Contacts to have that feature soon as it is built in tightly to the Contacts on Nokia phone. It is a pity that it sits idle since most of my contacts are on other network which is not currently supported by Ovi Contacts.

Okay. I have look everywhere how to do this. I have used the above address on the tutorial how to setup CoO to see my yahoo contacts, and I have never got it to work. Am I missing something. Is there a more thorough tutorial that gives exact step by step instructions other than the one listed above? I have tried both Psi and talkonaut from my laptop and on the phone. I have got to the part where the software says "so and so would like to be your friend accapt". I click confirm, but nothing shows up in Ovi contacts. I am totally stumped. Any help would be awesome and greatly appreciated.

I WAnna Add Messenger And Bb Pin Contacts :D And So CooL Aplication