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  <desc>Unified and integrated contacts and instant messaging</desc>
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<title>Telepathy</title>

<p>Telepathy provides a powerful framework for interacting with the
user's instant messaging contacts. With Telepathy, all accounts and
connections are handled by a D-Bus session service that's deeply
integrated into the GNOME desktop. Applications can tie into this
service to communicate with contacts.</p>

<p>With the Telepathy Tubes API, you can even tunnel an arbitrary
protocal over modern instant messaging protocols like Jabber to
create interactive applications. Create multi-player games or
collaborative editors that integrate with the desktop-wide
instant messaging services.</p>

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  <item><p><link href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/doc/book/">Telepathy Developer's Manual</link></p></item>
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