Adium to Support Facebook Chat

Posted by Nick O'Neill on May 11th, 2008 8:48 PM

Adium has announced support for Facebook chat in their upcoming release. This is the third instant message application to add support following behind Digsby and Gabtastik. While there is no word on when the upcoming release will officially launch, I would imagine that it will take place in the coming week. Facebook chat is rapidly becoming a ubiquitous platform of communication.

I have been using Facebook chat an increasing amount since I have so many contacts on the site. While Facebook chat doesn’t let you grant selective access to users yet, I’d guess that they will soon add more features. I don’t currently use my Mac as frequently as my PC so I haven’t had the opportunity to check out Gabtastik. It has received positive reviews from a number of people that I’ve spoken to about it.

Adium is one of the most popular chat applications for Mac users and I’d guess that this upcoming release will be extremely popular. Adium already supports 14 other chat platforms including ICQ, AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk and a number of others. This will add one more to the lineup. Read more about it over on the Adium blog.

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Jamie 4 months ago 1 point
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i hoping for Pidgin and *in daydream land* AIM (FB has online status of AIM users already since i been a member) or even Windows Live Messenger to slip it into there (next) beta for v9, considering the large financial donation to facebook. surely Microsoft wants there money worth.

this is the 2nd IM software to publicly and get alot of attention for adding FB chat support. the Gabtastik one was low key - so low it news to me (but i don't have a mac so that might be abit of the reason i do not know about it). with the exception of digsby both is Mac only. Digsby i feel has the better chance of success as it available on both windows, Mac and even linux

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Libby 4 months ago 1 point
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Digsby is Windows only b/c Mac and Linux have been "coming soon" forever. And even if Digbsy is released for the Mac, Adium has the multi-IM space tied up on that platform. IMHO, Adium users aren't going to be switching to Digsby.

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Kyle 4 months ago 1 point
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Aduim is an amazing client, and I have been pleased with it thus far. Digsby is ok, but I would agree with Libby and say that I probably won't switch if it ever comes to the *Nix/Mac OS platform. I would like to see how Facebook chat interfaces with Audium though...

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