Facebook has today added a quick chat function which is very similar to gmail's in webpage-chat. It shows everyone who is currently online and lets you send text-chats. Its pretty much a carbon copy to be honest.
Take a look: www.facebook.com
Hope they link the 2 together at some point. |
I don't like it :-(
In Gmail it's out of the way, here it's in the middle of the content. And I don't like the feel of it in general. |
another thing I just noticed: it doesn't actually work properly
Just tried it with a friend and it failed to send the message for over 5 min. Thats not really instant messaging is it. |
It worked fine for me when I saw it this morning and wondered whether I should post about it on blogoscoped.com. Actually I have been hoping for chat in facebook since I started using it. |
Seems to work fine for me.
By fine I mean as it's supposed to :-) |
I haven't tested it at all, but the idea seems like a solid one. Google's not quite as good as Facebook when it comes to guessing who my friends are. |