{"id":91,"date":"2010-06-24T11:39:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T23:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eion.robbmob.com\/blog\/?p=91"},"modified":"2010-06-24T11:39:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T23:39:39","slug":"skypekit-in-pidgin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eion.robbmob.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/24\/skypekit-in-pidgin\/","title":{"rendered":"SkypeKit in Pidgin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a couple of comments on my blog about this but I&#8217;ve been waiting until I saw what Skype had made public before I mentioned anything.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, SkypeKit has been announced.  A new way to connect to the Skype network.  Yes, it still needs a Skype client running, however now that Skype client doesn&#8217;t have a user-interface.  This new interface allows developers to use more parts of Skype that were previously untouchable, such as native-typing notifications and file transfers, which is a good thing.  Sure, its not perfect in a pure open-source world but definitely a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news is that it&#8217;s GPL incompatible and needs a lot more work before a GPL compatible plugin for Pidgin can be made available.  Yes, work is in progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a couple of comments on my blog about this but I&#8217;ve been waiting until I saw what Skype had made public before I mentioned anything. Yes, SkypeKit has been announced. A new way to connect to the Skype network. Yes, it still needs a Skype client running, however now that Skype client doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3CEsE-1t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eion.robbmob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eion.robbmob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eion.robbmob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eion.robbmob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eion.robbmob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eion.robbmob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eion.robbmob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eion.robbmob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eion.robbmob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}