DuckDuckGo just launched a DDG branded XMPP service

Re:DuckDuckGo just launched a DDG branded XMPP service by thristian on Friday May 13, 2011 @09:53AM (#2544599)

I'm most interested this oblique reference: "...add our DuckDuckGo Jabber Conference, it will soon be linked to the IRC channel #duckduckgo on freenode".

Where's the technology for linking an XMPP conference to an IRC channel? I lurk in some IRC channels that would love to migrate to a more modern protocol, and that seems a good way to bridge the gap.

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Re:DuckDuckGo just launched a DDG branded XMPP service by gettygermany on Friday May 13, 2011 @10:21AM (#2544706)

We use a Perl Bot for this. It will uses POE-Components to connect to the IRC and to the XMPP and then dispatches the messages to one from the other.

If you are interested, just join us on IRC and we talk about it :)

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Re:DuckDuckGo just launched a DDG branded XMPP service by p4bl0 on Friday May 13, 2011 @10:37AM (#2544786)

A friend did this: https://gitorious.org/irctk ("irctk is a general-purpose IRC wrapper written in C with libircclient"). I think it could be pretty straightforward to do the job using it.

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Re:DuckDuckGo just launched a DDG branded XMPP service by gettygermany on Friday May 13, 2011 @10:41AM (#2544803)

We prefer Perl, cause we got one solution for everything and can easily combine the thousands components offered. Just cause a lib does IRC doesnt help us much :-) It must be easy! :)

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Re:DuckDuckGo just launched a DDG branded XMPP service by agazso on Friday May 13, 2011 @10:54AM (#2544837)

XMPP has a concept of transports, that are gateways to other networks. Gateways exists for MSN, ICQ, AIM and IRC.

And to answer your question, taka a look at

http://xmpppy.sourceforge.net/irc/

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Re:DuckDuckGo just launched a DDG branded XMPP service by cdr on Friday May 13, 2011 @10:24AM (#2544727)

At one of my internships they had written a simple server in Java to bridge XMPP and IRC. Sounds like it's been re-invented a few times.

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