What: Coccinella
Where: http://hem.fyristorg.com/matben/
Description: Tcl/Tk whiteboard, shared desktop, text chat with images, MP3,
etc. supporting plugins and compatible with Jabber.
Uses GPL licensing. Should run on most
Linux, MacOS, Windows, and other platforms with appropriate
Tcl/Tk extensions ported.
Currently at version 0.95.0
Updated: 09/2004
Contact: http://hem.fyristorg.com/matben/contact/contact.html
A Starkit of version 0.94.4 is available from [L1 ] (way cool!).
Coccinella is a winner of ActiveState's 2004 Tk Screenshot Contest.
LV Can Coccinella and other jabber clients talk to users of AOL Instant Message?
PT - Yes. A number of jabber servers provide gateways to AIM, Yahoo, MSN and ICQ. These can be found using the discovery protocol or by checking http://www.jabber.org/user/publicservers.php . For instance, the jabber.org.uk server provides IRC, MSN, AIM, ICQ and Yahoo. amessage.info has a similar set and includes a e-mail gateway.
To use a foreign messaging system you normally need an account in that system. So you need to create a Yahoo account and then provide the account details to the jabber gateway when registering. After that users on the foreign system can be seen as if they were jabber users.