Facebook Chat integration coming to Windows Live Messenger?


Posted by absorbation on Sun 21 Mar 2010 (14:39 GMT) (5458 views)
There has been a consensus that instant messaging is in decline while the popularity of social networking websites are on a rapid rise. Although statistics suggest otherwise, the buzz around IM seems to be stagnant, or at least from my perspective. IM is in desperate need of life and perhaps embracing social networking in will be the panacea it needs.

LiveSide has uncovered evidence to suggest Windows Live Messenger 2010 is likely to implement Facebook Chat integration. What does this mean? You can chat to your friends on Facebook from within Messenger.

Microsoft currently possesses a 1.6% share in Facebook, estimated to be worth $15bn. It is a logical step that the company would want to expand its involvement in one of the biggest websites on the Internet today.

However, the extend to how integrated the two platforms are going to be is open to doubt. Unlike when Windows Live Messenger allowed you to talk to your Yahoo! Messenger contacts, the differences in protocols may create some heavy limitations. LiveSide comments:

What this possibly means though is that your Windows Live contacts are not fully integrated with your Facebook contacts. For example, a person may be online on Messenger as well as Facebook chat, but might appear as two different contacts on your Messenger contact list. Guess we'll have to live with that given that it'd be quite complicated to match your Windows Live contacts with Facebook's contact. We wonder if any other social networks or protocols will be supported though!



Source: LiveSide - Windows Live Messenger Wave 4: Interoperability with Facebook chat

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Tags:   Facebook  Integration  Social networking  Windows Live Messenger  2010  WLM 10  Wave 4    

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