Houou

Houou is a chat client that allows you to share your current location with your friends. You can also see where your friends are and places of interest around them. You can map places around you and performs check-ins with foursquare. Houou supports direct connection to Google Talk, Facebook or any other XMPP/Jabber servers (does not use intermediary servers). It uses the XMPP presence status to communicate your location over SSL via these servers to your friends on the chat client. The location sharing options are None (default), City, or Full. Full will share your current GPS coordinates. Features include:

Chat
- XMPP chat with Google Talk, Facebook or any other XMPP/Jabber servers
- Direct connection to XMPP server over SSL, does not use intermediary servers.
- Group (multi-user conference) chat with Google Talk and any other XMPP/Jabber servers
- Notification if application is in background
- Concurrent multiple chat tab windows
- Searchable chat history
- Sound notification for new messages and status
- Add (remove) friends to (from) your buddy list

Location Presence
- Location sharing, updates and mapping
- Map coordinates to place description (street, city, state/province, ...)
- Check-in with foursquare
- Search interesting places around your friends (powered by Google Places API)
- Search interesting places around you and check-in (powered by foursquare API)

Presence
- Option to show the song you are listening to
- Option to change presence status, such as Busy, Unavailable, Available, Invisible and custom status message