Valleywag: Facebook Chat

Now you can ignore your Facebook "friends" in Trillian, too

Nicholas Carlson — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:20:00 PDT

Facebook is building a Jabber/XMPP interface for Facebook Chat, which means users can access their Facebook friends list from other instant messaging clients such as Trillian, Apple's iChat or Pandion, not just the Facebook website. [Facebook Developers' Feed]

Demo video of Facebook Chat reveals work-free future

Nicholas Carlson — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:20:28 PDT

Buried on the bottom edge of your browser, Facebook's new instant-messaging feature "is meant to be really unobtrusive and there when you need it," explains Facebook project manager Peter Deng in a video demonstrating Facebook Chat, below. We know it's unobtrusive because Mark Zuckerburg put Facebook's easily missed Beacon opt-out notifications in the same spot. More details on Facebook Chat revealed weeks ahead of schedule in the clip below.

Facebook confirms Facebook Chat, makes life easier for stalkers

Nicholas Carlson — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:00:38 PDT

Facebook will launch Facebook Chat, a Web-based IM system built into Facebook, in the coming weeks, flack Meredith Chin confirmed today. There go startup Social.im's hopes for an acquisition. Chin wouldn't share any more details. (You should. Leaks are good for business, remember.) She also said Facebook would introduce new privacy updates tomorrow, including an option to allow "friends of friends" to share information. I'll start. 25/m/NY.