http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/valleywag.com.png http://valleywag.com/tag/social.im http://valleywag.com/tag/social.im 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.

]]> Valleywag-369397 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:00:38 PDT Nicholas Carlson http://valleywag.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=369397&view=rss&microfeed=true We hear that Facebook has purchased Social.im, the instant messaging application built on top of Facebook. This jibes with Michael Arrington's report that Facebook is about to launch an IM service. Mogad, the company behind Social.im, also took investment from Facebook backer Peter Thiel. Update: "If we're being bought, I haven't gotten the call yet," says Mogad CEO Yanda Erlich. In a now-deleted blog post, he also poked coy fun at the now-debunked rumor with this fake IM exchange:

]]> Valleywag-368339 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:22:31 PDT Jordan Golson http://valleywag.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=368339&view=rss&microfeed=true