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Facebook Chat Launched

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Abhinav
on April 12, 2008
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Facebook has launched its instant messaging product. However, my personal preference is to keep it disabled. I think integration with friends’ lists is important, as usually people add so many friends on facebook as it is impossible to communicate with all of them simeltanously. Most of my friends have disabled the feature. I think the lacking ingredient is prioritization.

Here’s the official announcement on the Facebook blog.

Facebook IM Preview Video

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Abhinav
on March 24, 2008
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I had talked about Facebook coming up with their integrated IM client soon. Here is a video preview of what it might look like. This is official, but they’ve said that the final product might be very different.

Facebook IM in two weeks.

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Abhinav
on March 22, 2008
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InsideFacebook points out that chat for Facebook is coming out in two weeks from now.

Peter Deng, Product Manager, Facebook Chat

  • Facebook chat launching in the coming weeks. We’re opening up a new communication channel and enable real time conversation on the site.
  • Chat UI at the bottom of the browser - present whenever you’re on the site. Shows open chat windows, number of friends online.
  • Can pop out entire chat interface into a separate window. It shows online friend lists and current conversations.
  • If don’t want to be bothered by chats, you can toggle your online/offline status easily.
  • Considering whether or not we will support Jabber. We’re starting with on-site messaging.
  • You can clear your own chat history if you like.
  • Your “online” status icons when you appear throughout the site.

When Facebook first talked about a chat platform, I had hoped for something similar to Meebo, which would integrate with existing chat protocols, but it looks like Facebook is going their own way, which would have been the rational prediction in the first place.