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- type="topic"
+ xmlns:e="http://projectmallard.org/experimental/"
+ type="topic" style="task"
id="create-account">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#accounts"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="add-account"/>
- <link type="seealso" xref="irc-account"/>
- <desc>
- Register an account with one of the supported messaging services.
- </desc>
+ <desc>Register for an account with one of the supported messaging services.</desc>
<revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-06-21" status="draft"/>
- <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-07" status="review"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-07" status="review">
+ <!--
+ <e:review by="shaunm@gnome.org" date="2009-09-02" status="done"/>
+ -->
+ </revision>
+ <revision pkgversion="2.30" version="0.3" date="2010-04-19" status="review"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="2.30" version="0.4" date="2010-10-01" status="review"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>Milo Casagrande</name>
<email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
</credit>
+ <license>
+ <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
+ </license>
+<!--
<copyright>
<year>2009</year>
<name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
</copyright>
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
+-->
</info>
<title>Register for a new account</title>
<p>This page provides information on creating a new account for various types of
accounts. Your account provider should give you a login ID and a password, as well
- as any additional information you need to connect with <app>Empathy</app>.</p>
+ as any additional information you need to connect using <app>Empathy</app>.</p>
+
+ <section id="facebook">
+ <title>Facebook</title>
+ <p>
+ Facebook is one of the most-used social networks. It allows users to
+ create their own profile and to communicate with their friends.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To use Facebook to communicate with your friends, you will need
+ to create a new account from the website:
+ <link href="http://www.facebook.com">www.facebook.com</link>.
+ </p>
+ </section>
<section id="jabber">
<title>Jabber</title>
<section id="salut">
<title>People Nearby</title>
- <p>You do not need to create an account to use this feature. This service works
- whenever you are connected to a local network, such as a wireless hotspot. It
- automatically finds all other users on the network who are also using this
- service.</p>
+ <p>You do not need to create an account with a service provider to use this
+ feature. This service works whenever you are connected to a local network,
+ such as a wireless hotspot. It automatically finds all other users on the
+ network who are also using this service.</p>
<p>For more information, see <link xref="salut-protocol" />.</p>
</section>
<section id ="sip-services">
- <title>Telephony Services</title>
+ <title>SIP</title>
- <p>
- These services will let you do voice call over the Internet with
- other people using the same service or even to normal phones.
- </p>
+ <p>SIP is an open system which allows users to have audio and video
+ conversations over the Internet. You need to create an account with
+ a SIP provider. You can communicate with all other SIP users,
+ regardless of which SIP provider they use.</p>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- <link href="https://www.ekiga.net/index.php?page=register">Ekiga</link>
- </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- <link href="https://signup.sipphone.com/new-users/app?class=NewUser;proc=start">Sipphone</link>
- </p>
- </item>
- </list>
-
- <note>
- <p>
- In order to call normal phones over the Internet, you may need
- to subscribe to a paid service. For more information, please
- refer to the instructions provided on the website of the
- service you will use.
- </p>
+ <note style="warning">
+ <p>Due to technical differences, the free <link
+ href="https://www.ekiga.net/index.php?page=register">Ekiga.net</link>
+ service does not currently work with <app>Empathy</app>.</p>
</note>
+
+ <p>Some SIP providers allow you to call normal phones from your computer.
+ Generally, you will need to subscribe to a paid service for this feature.</p>
</section>
<section id="irc">
<title>IRC</title>
- <comment>
- <p>you don't need an account, but mention and cross-link nick registering
- and server password stuff</p>
- </comment>
+ <p>You do not need to register for an account to use IRC. Although you specify
+ a nickname when you add an IRC account to <app>Empathy</app>, this nickname is
+ only established each time you connect. If another user is using the nickname,
+ you will need to choose a new nickname.</p>
+
+ <p>Some IRC networks use a service called NickServ to allow users to protect
+ their nicknames. See <link xref="irc-nick-password"/> for more information.</p>
+
+ <p>Some IRC servers are password protected. You will need to know the password
+ to connect to these servers. Generally, these are private IRC networks.</p>
</section>
<section id="proprietary-services">
<title>Proprietary Services</title>
+ <p>There are many proprietary instant messaging services that have been
+ developed by different companies or organizations. <app>Empathy</app>
+ allows you to connect to an existing account for most popular services.
+ To create a new account with one of these services, you will need to
+ visit the service’s web site and agree to its terms of use.</p>
+
<list>
<item>
<p>
<link href="http://dashboard.aim.com/aim">AIM</link>
</p>
</item>
- <item>
- <p>
- <link href="http://www.google.com/talk/">Google Talk</link>
- </p>
- </item>
<item>
<p>
<link href="https://www.icq.com/register/">ICQ</link>
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