Native Facebook IM details, screenshots emerge
by Russell Shaw
Sam from the UK Blognation site has obtained news and images of a friendvox Facebook IM application that is due for a beta release this Friday.
“What I like about this Facebook app is there is nothing to download or install, no registration and best of all, all of your friends in Facebook can use it instantly,” he writes.
I tend to say, “hey Facebook, what took you so long?” Social networks are ideal potting soil for IM and texting applications. That being obvious, Facebook may be doing this because they felt it was only a matter of time before a whole parade of third-party developers- sanctioned or not- would start building texting and IM apps for the platform.
Instead, Facebook is in control of this utility.
IMs will look like this:
I’m anxious to try this on one of my mobiles.
