Infinity and Beyond

After months of prodding to try to get my developer friends to work together to create a viable chat application for facebook they have announced that despite the over 500+ chat applications currently available, that they are just going to do it themselves.

That’s right folks, Facebook Chat will be launched this week allowing users to communicate in real time with their friends. But, “why just talk to someone when you can experience them?” Asks Patrick Thornton who runs “The Journalism Iconoclast” blog. Well, I don’t know how much experiencingI want to be doing of my friends but, this new feature has the potential to launch facebook into second place in the instant messaging world under AOL supported AIM. Maybe now I won’t have my gmail chat going all day and have to visit facebook separately. Ahh, the joys of all-in-one convenience.

It has been clear for a while that this was going to be the next big step in facebook’s evolution. Frankly now all they need is music pages with several songs per page and I’ll have no more reason to ever go to myspace again. Sadly at this stage of the game local musicians need myspace pages to remain relevant and help them break into the industry and get gigs.

At any rate, this is a welcome addition to the better of the two major social networking sites and it was one I predicted ages ago. Sadly for me I wasn’t able to create it own my own and won’t be getting a job with facebook anytime soon. 

Justin and Naseem are going for the subtle approach I see. Facebook Chat roxorz!

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