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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Legally XSS by Facebook?

[zukinux]

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.

who cares so what not news

[justdrew]

this is just stinking PR, please...