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Facebook Gets New Integrated IM Client
Stitch_Surfs writes "Blognation is reporting that the IM client FriendVOX has gone live for Facebook. This is the first time that Facebook users (of which there are now some 32 million) can communicate with one another from directly within the Facebook application. This development, by UK-based Techlightenment, effectively closes the loop for any external applications to be used (or necessary) for communication among Facebook users.'It will be interesting to see how quickly FriendVox is adopted and could it ever replace Twitter by simply using the Facebook status. The other question is what will Facebook do if FriendVox ever became too popular? Would they seek to buy it or replicate it themselves? This is the real dilemma facing all Facebook developers living inside the Facebook walled garden, and recently this happened when a developer showed Facebook their new marketplace application which would run inside of Facebook. Inside of two weeks Facebook had suddenly launched their own marketplace!'"
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It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
This is the first time that Facebook users (of which there are now some 32 million) can communicate with one another from directly within the Facebook application.
Really? The first time they could communicate with each other? what were they doing on the site before?
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
As if facebook wasn't creepy enough... now people can see if I'm online at that VERY moment? Thats not scary at all.
It was always so hard for me to click on someone's screen name in their profile to open up an AIM window to use them.
Popular instant messaging systems be damned, we need another way to send our friends links to shock sites that doesn't work with any others!
I've registered to Facebook the other day, after registration, they pointed me to check my e-mail at gmail (I mean, they redirected me to gmail! not told me to go check my email!), okay, So I went to my gmail, and clicked on their mail's link to authenticate I'm a real user, and afterwards, in the 2nd part of the registration, Facebook told me who of my contact in gmail has a Facebook account! (How did they know who are my contact, stored at gmail?), also, they offered me to send e-mail, suggesting about facebook to the people whom I've talked to in my gmail, and are not registered at Facebook and I would like to suggest them to Facebook.
I've asked myself, how, and why, would Facebook know which my contact are?! if it's not shared between Gmail and Facebook, it's the most discovered XSS I've ever seen.
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this is just stinking PR, please...
While I definately prefer Facebook over MySpace, and while I have found it to be EXTREMELY useful (located some friends I hadn't seen or heard from since middle school...a couple from as far as back as elementary school) I absolutely despise this application crap...part of the allure facebook had for me was that it was clean, simple, and not flashy. While I know that all of these applications are entirely voluntary and they don't just toss them in your face (i.e. you have to actually go browsing in the application section to see them) it still bothers me that Facebook continues to expand like this.
Don't get me wrong...from a business sense, I understand why it's being done. From a lot of my friend's point of view, I notice that a large portion of them like the idea of of the applications...but still. Slowly, Facebook is becoming more and more like MySpace....and that's definitely not good.
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It's actually on my slashdot blog : How to get girls from sites like facebook, personal project
It's based on a site basically like facebook, I'd be happy if you'll post some comments there as-well since no one reads my slashdot blog, lol!
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what is with facebook ? every now and then there are quite boring stories about facebook on slashdot... why should I care.. seriously ?
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I guess now we know why Facebook is a $15 Billion corporation. Right?
Opps... I wrote too slow. They are worth $20 Billion now.
I was trying to estimate the effect this FriendVOX move will have on users of Facebook and Twitter. After careful consideration I realized I'm not a retarded 12 year-old girl.
And yes, the college level kids using Facebook are also retarded 12 year-old girls.
If myspace is the armpit of the internet, Facebook is like the sweaty taint.
This is the first time that Facebook users can communicate with one another from directly within the Facebook application.
This is great! Someday, maybe this tool will allow Facebook users to communicate with users on other websites. Imagine the possibilities!
Right now, the web is fragmented into many different isolated islands. Each service requires a different registration, uses different protocols, and are generally incompatible with one another. It's difficult for UserA on Facebook to communicate with UserB on MySpace. Users on AOL Instant Messenger can't talk to users on Yahoo Instant Messenger!
My parents don't use Facebook, AIM or any other social networking technology. Let's think of a solution for them too!
I propose we connect all of these large websites and services, possibly using a series of interconnected networks, well defined common protocols. I think we should call it 'The Interweb'.
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
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There has been a Meebo app out for ages, so I don't know where this "first time" thing is coming from.
http://auburn.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2354779593
Ye Gawds.... Facebook apps are news worthy? Then again, maybe Slashdot also needs opportunities for me to turn Taco into a Vampire.
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What about Mosoto, currently in alpha? At first glance, it looks rather interesting as well... interface is slick, it lets you mouse over friends to see common interests, and it is said that you can use this to stream music to your friends. It has buttons for using a webcam, too; I haven't played with Mosoto much yet but it's worth a look if we're talking about IM through Facebook. -- Joren
-- Joren
Great, just add it to the long list: AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, skype, google talk, QQ, etc. Stop the madness developers!
why not create a jabber/xmpp based solution?
that way any recent non-specific im client should be able to access it, and gtalk at the same time.
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ok, i don't get it. Cluestick?
Facebook may replicate it, but they tend to be better behaved than myspace who like to block applications from their site - youtube, photobucket, revver, imeem, hoooka have all been blocked from myspace. A myspace exec even made a comment that if they'd seen youtube sooner they would have shut it down and stopped it becoming the titan they are, with imeem they don't intend to make that mistake again. (you can't eve say imeem.com without it getting edited)
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Good post; it's clear that every new site has to expand until it subsumes all functions of the Internet to maximize the apparent valuation to any deep pocketed and preferably extremely stupid buyer (eBay, are you listening?) In the process of trying to be all thing to all people, it then loses what made it distinctive and useful in the first place.
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Just brilliant.
That's the only reason? A web app fills the giant void AOL left behind. *Yawn*
Tell me when chatrooms make a come back, ok? Oh God, that's what this integrated IM thing is going to turn into.
Yay, it's "OKAY, EVERYBODY, ASL? =-)" all over again.
When you're done backfilling all the things that made AOL faaaaantastic, could you get around to fixing email spam?
Thanks, just wake me up again when web 3.0 gets here.
Is anyone paid to publish this story or submit this story to Slashdot "news for nerds?".
If this kind of junk makes into front page of slashdot second time in a month (check http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/23/0019224 which is there on APPLE topic with a referrer? URL), why the hell are you suggesting us to pay/subscribe to get rid of ads? I could care less about ads, there are 3 layers of disabled software which would allow me to erase them. We, subscribers pay so Slashdot wouldn't have to post this kind of PR junk to front page.
Also, the accepting editor should know that besides whatever he hears on IRC or Web, Slashdot community aren't really lifeleless nerds who doesn't know how things work.
First, there was a completely off topic (Apple topic? Come on) story with a referrer URL and now this story.
If this kind of PR junk , site abuse makes to front page, lets all go elsewhere and "fix that" instead of trying to fix a broken thing.
If they are going to develop a really good IM for Facebook (which I'd quite like) then they really nned a libpurple plugin no? That way it would work with e.g. Pidgin and Adium...
And LiveJournal provides a jabber server. So what?
It's been done before, MySpace has that MySpaceIM thing.
I didn't see such a commotion over LJ providing Jabber or MySpace doing that MySpaceIM thing.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
That's the only reason? A web app fills the giant void AOL left behind. *Yawn*
Ok, in what way is Facebook like AOL? I can't see any connection, or reason to suspect people left AOL for Facebook.