Facebook’s much-anticipated IM client, Facebook Chat, has launched on a limited pre-beta release. Currently only available to certain networks, the new feature will allow friends to chat directly from within their web browsers. Initial reviews from those who have access seem very positive, and from Facebook’s point of view it’s bound to keep users on the site for longer and thus increase eyeball time on their ads. Having said that, what would be really cool is Jabber integration, to allow users to chat in standalone clients.

TechCrunch report on the limited launch, here.

Posted Sunday, April 6th, 2008 @ 10:26 pm
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