And now we have added this network to eBuddy, so you can also chat with your friends on eBuddy via ICQ! Besides the addition of the ICQ network we have also improved our Yahoo! connectivity and fixed a lot of minor issues.
To chat with your Facebook friends download the latest version of the eBuddy Mobile Messenger to your phone at get.ebuddy.com, or just browse to m.ebuddy.com on your phone for the eBuddy Lite Messenger.
It's great to see how all our IM clients coming together in one easy to use service. Moreover, the Facebook messenger client support is a sign of its fast increasing popularity. Maybe the predictions we made a few months ago are coming true?
eBuddy blog: ICQ support added eBuddy blog: Facebook chat on eBuddyon Mon 11 Aug 2008 (10:53 GMT) (6008 views)
Have you ever wanted to have all your online contacts in one place? With Invite2Messenger, now you can! This great new service allows you to easily invite your Facebook contacts over to chat on Windows Live Messenger.
You can now also access and update your Facebook account within Messenger. Check your messages or write on your friend's wall. Send a cheeky poke or browse through photo albums. You can even update your status directly from Messenger!
The service will expand to other social networking websites such as Bebo and Hi5 soon. (Emphasis and links added to quote)
Visit the Messenger United website More info on accessing Facebook within MessengerThis is yet another great idea from the Meebo ideas factory, but I'm not currently sure who will have access to it. I believe it is open to a selected few websites, with large communities, hoping to profit from ads within the application. If the service becomes publicly available, then expect to see one here.
Source: TechCrunch
For me, yes. I no longer use Windows Live Messenger daily, nor do I spend much time on it at all. I've noticed my friends have adopted the same approach, they prefer to check out new photos and comments on Facebook rather than logging in and waiting to chat to friends. Then again, I have been more busy in recent times, and I spend less time on my computer altogether.
According to Nielsen Online, the time British web users spent using MSN/Windows Live Messenger in April 2008 matched the number of minutes spent on Facebook: 2.4 billion. While that's a whopping increase for Facebook (coming from 500 million in April 2007), it's a considerable loss for Messenger that still accounted for 3.2 billion minutes in the same month last year.
Alex Burmaster, internet analyst at Nielsen Online, defines it as a relatively rapid "seismic shift" from Instant Messaging to communication through social networks. IM in general appears to be over the hill (total minutes were down from 3.9 billion to 2.9 billion) and clearly losing ground to social networking (minutes up from 2.4 billion to 3.7 billion).
To top things off, Facebook have now get their own instant messaging system usable from every page within the website. It is convenient and easy to use, but I never use it. So have you noticed yourself using Messenger less and social networking more?
Source: mess.be - "Facebook catches up with Windows Live Messenger in UK"Simply open the tab (the one with the "f" icon) [picture link] and click the login button. This lets you login with your Facebook account from where you can add the "Facebook Updates for Messenger" application.
Allowing the app to have access to your information means that it can keep you up-to-date with you and your friends' status updates and photos [picture link]. Allowing "extended access" also lets you do things like change your Facebook status from within Messenger.
Add the Facebook Updates for Messenger app to your Facebook account Give some suggestions or feedback about the tabWhile we're talking about Facebook ...
- Try out Fibby, an add-in for Messenger that sets, and updates, your personal message to be the same as your status on Facebook (thanks to Adam Dempsey for telling us about it).
- Add the official Windows Live Messenger for Facebook application to your profile to view the status of and send IMs to your Facebook friends who also use the app. It also allows visitors to your profile to see your status and send you an IM. It was built using the Messenger Library, Presence API and IM Control and you can see the developers explain more about it in this video.
- Use Invite2Messenger to invite any of your Facebook friends not already on your Windows Live contact list to Messenger.
- ... Or just become a fan of Windows Live Messenger.
However, this is soon to change. Facebook want to gain even more popularity by stepping it up a notch: jabber. One of the Facebook developers, David Reiss, posted Tuesday about a future addition to the Facebook chat.
Right now we're building a Jabber/XMPP interface for Facebook Chat. In the near future, users will be able to use Jabber/XMPP-based chat applications to connect to Facebook Chat to:
- Communicate with their friends
- See which of their friends are online and view their profile pictures
- Set their statuses
Currently, jabber is quite accessible, even if not quite popular. Most people don't know, though, that Google Talk is based on the jabber protocol.
So what does this mean? This means that Facebook chat will be usable with many clients. A list of possible clients can be seen here. So is Facebook finally hitting a new market and making major competition to the already popular Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger and Google Talk? Only time will tell.
Facebook.com David Reiss' article
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