Facebook’s own instant messaging service
Posted on March 15th 2008 in Social Networking
It’s been a while since I posted about something directly going on with Facebook. There were mostly plenty of new applications that ended up, well, nowhere, but this is different. This is Facebook’s own application for instant messaging. According to TechCrunch, it’s coming very soon, like in the next week, and it will be built on the Jabber platform most probably (just like GTalk).
There are third party instant chat applications on Facebook, like Social.IM or Instant Chat, but their days may be numbered once Facebook introduces its own instant chat service. According to AllFacebook, openness will be key, and I agree. Having the ability to import contacts from other chat clients like GTalk and Skype will be a great start. But why not an even more open platform which would add the ability to chat with a Facebook user (who’s logged in) from another site where the chat client can be embedded.
