Facebook Chat Launches This Week
Posted by Nick O'Neill on April 6th, 2008 11:55 AM
As I implied toward the end of last week, it appears as though the chat launch is imminent. Well, Facebook has just announced that they are rolling out Facebook chat this week. The first change will be a chat bar at the bottom of your web browser. There is no installation required and will start being available in the next day or so. Facebook chat will also be integrated with other features of the site.
Notifications from applications and pages will now be sent directly to the chat application. Additionally, new mini-feed items of your friends will be posted to this chat applications. For those individuals with a lot of friends I could see this feature becoming increasingly annoying. While Facebook will keep a log of your conversations, you can immediately delete them. Oh and about those annoying mini-feed notifications that I just mentioned, apparently you can turn off that feature through the chat settings panel.
This new feature will be an exciting upgrade to the site. It also appears to be a move to try to keep people engaged on the Facebook site for a longer duration. It reminds me of Gchat prior to the GTalk application and how I always needed to keep a browser tab open for browsing. Perhaps this is what Facebook is hoping for. I would suggest that Facebook follow in Google’s footsteps and launch a FBTalk application. Just a thought!
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20 Responses to “Facebook Chat Launches This Week”
This is great. I hope it will be possible to use in connection with Facebook pages. I would also like a Facebook chat application, but if the goal is to keep the users on the site, I would not bet on this coming anytime soon….
This is great. I hope it will be possible to use in connection with Facebook pages. I would also like a Facebook chat application, but if the goal is to keep the users on the site, I would not bet on this coming anytime soon….
can’t we connect it? after all, it’s jabber.
isn’t it?
can’t we connect it? after all, it’s jabber.
isn’t it?
My prediction Nick is that Chat will be a game changer for sure for Facebook. There are third party apps - yes - but direct integration within Facebook will be massive.
This will be huge!
There will be those that try and hide from friends - and some who do not want to be bombarded when online. Conversation awareness will be a big issue - chatting with more that one friend and productivity will take a nosedive. However once that dies down - FB will become a destination and staying logged in and on the site will be commonplace.
This will be cool to see how it all plays out.
Cheers - Eric
My prediction Nick is that Chat will be a game changer for sure for Facebook. There are third party apps - yes - but direct integration within Facebook will be massive.
This will be huge!
There will be those that try and hide from friends - and some who do not want to be bombarded when online. Conversation awareness will be a big issue - chatting with more that one friend and productivity will take a nosedive. However once that dies down - FB will become a destination and staying logged in and on the site will be commonplace.
This will be cool to see how it all plays out.
Cheers - Eric
This will be awesome, because although all my friends are spread over several IM systems like MSN, AIM etc.. they are all at Facebook!
I agree with Eric. this could be a game changer for them and take a lot of traffic away from Twitter and Pownce. How do you think those microblogging sites will be impacted, Nick?
This will be awesome, because although all my friends are spread over several IM systems like MSN, AIM etc.. they are all at Facebook!
I think this definitely could be a game changer but they need to make the desktop version of the chat. You can already chat with your facebook friends via digsby (see digsby.com). It will be interesting to see if Facebook decides to launch something similar to Gtalk.
I agree with Eric. this could be a game changer for them and take a lot of traffic away from Twitter and Pownce. How do you think those microblogging sites will be impacted, Nick?
I think this definitely could be a game changer but they need to make the desktop version of the chat. You can already chat with your facebook friends via digsby (see digsby.com). It will be interesting to see if Facebook decides to launch something similar to Gtalk.
Great news. Our team also launched an sexy desktop application for Facebook named VisualSage - for Facebook. Users can chat, manage and play with all friends. But different from traditional IM software, VisualSage can display all your friends in a network style. That’s very cool.
Great news. Our team also launched an sexy desktop application for Facebook named VisualSage - for Facebook. Users can chat, manage and play with all friends. But different from traditional IM software, VisualSage can display all your friends in a network style. That’s very cool.
Nick, The fb chat app is already available on the Brown network for a few days now. (But can only chat with friends within the network who already have the app.)
Nick, The fb chat app is already available on the Brown network for a few days now. (But can only chat with friends within the network who already have the app.)
Ditto for the Berkeley network. I guess there’s still some vestiges of when Facebook was exclusively for elite colleges.
Ditto for the Berkeley network. I guess there’s still some vestiges of when Facebook was exclusively for elite colleges.
WHEN will i be able to use it?!
WHEN will i be able to use it?!
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