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Originally Posted by pringlet
Hey fuuup,
Good thinking man, gtalk is based on jabber protocol. maybe there's something that exists for jabber that could do this.
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I found this earlier:
http://jabtxt.com/
It's a free jabber gateway that allows you to do SMS to/from jabber, but I'm either a little too tired or there isn't enough documentation to determine whether or not this is what we need.
Ultimately, I think we should be able to consolidate all of our IM services under one jabber ID, and then use that ID to communicate with our friends from different services.
I believe the communication flow should look like this:
Phone (SMS) -> SMS to Jabber Gateway (possibly jabtxt.com) -> Main Jabber gateway connected to all desired IM services -> Friends' IM client... and vice versa.
The fact that google uses the jabber protocol for chat will definitely be helpful, since it makes it 100% compatible with the any jabber gateway. I just need to figure out how to configure and point each gateway in the right direction... or find out if that is even posible. The main thing would be linking the SMS gateway to the main jabber gateway.
It'd be great if it ends up working, which would mean that it would operate without any client software leaving us with zero battery drain. I've been testing yahoo's command line sms->IM service and it works pretty well. A lot quicker than OZ and any other SMS based IM application.
I'll probably be up for a few more hours.. we'll see how it goes.