{"id":801,"date":"2008-04-23T08:47:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T13:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/23\/facebook-does-instant-messanging-im"},"modified":"2008-04-23T08:47:37","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T13:47:37","slug":"facebook-does-instant-messanging-im","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/23\/facebook-does-instant-messanging-im","title":{"rendered":"Facebook does Instant Messanging (IM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dunno if this is a new feature, but Facebook has integrated instant messaging (IM) to folk that are on Facebook. This is like Google doing their Google Talk chats inside GMail. More and more reason why the web browser replaces the traditional desktop application?<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/2436618644\/\" title=\"Facebook chats by byte, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2069\/2436618644_67be3cb902_o.jpg?resize=256%2C320\" alt=\"Facebook chats\" height=\"320\" width=\"256\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Facebook IM<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Do I like being able to only talk to folk that are my friends? Naturally. One wonders though why we have so many different identities, on different services. The one that consolidates them all, is the one that enables ease of use, is the one that will &#8220;win&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Me? I&#8217;m old fashioned. I like my IM client. I like my email client. All desktop clients I might add. The kids of today? They&#8217;re happy with everything web-based. Besides, the concept of syncing stuff offline is slowly becoming more popular with web-based applications, so maybe eventually, I too might like these new web applications&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/web\" rel=\"tag\">web<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/communications\" rel=\"tag\">communications<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/IM\" rel=\"tag\">IM<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/facebook\" rel=\"tag\">facebook<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/in-browser\" rel=\"tag\">in-browser<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/browser%20experience\" rel=\"tag\">browser experience<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/history\" rel=\"tag\">history<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/thoughts\" rel=\"tag\">thoughts<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Facebook%20does%20Instant%20Messanging%20%28IM%29&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F04%2F23%2Ffacebook-does-instant-messanging-im&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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The bigger picture is competition against Google, Apple This was literally moments after the news\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2108,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2011\/03\/08\/messenger-apps-disrupting-text-messaging-sms","url_meta":{"origin":801,"position":2},"title":"Messenger apps, disrupting text messaging (SMS)","date":"8\/3\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are my thoughts on messenger applications, and if you read beyond, there's an idea worth thinking about. Dramatis Personnae: Beluga: Free, Private group messaging on your mobile (with Facebook integration). Works on iOS and Android. Created by ex-Googler's. Recently acquired by Facebook. 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