Report: Facebook to Launch Instant Messaging Service

Authored by Jay Baage on March 14, 2008 - 10:46am.

Palo Alto, CA - The popular social networking site Facebook has been testing a new instant messaging service and will be launching it to the public soon, perhaps in the next week, according to TechCrunch:

”Our understanding is that the service will be built into user’s Facebook pages and allow them to web chat with their Facebook friends. We’ve also heard that, like Gtalk, it will be built on the Jabber open source platform, allowing users to add the service to many popular Instant messaging clients like Trillian (Windows) and Adium (Mac.”