Facebook Chat has the potential to disrupt the current IM landscape

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I have used Facebook Chat a few times now and think it is only an update away from disrupting the incumbent Instant Messaging products (MSN, Yahoo!, GTalk, ...).

With the introduction of Facebook Chat I have found myself in discussions with people that I do not currently have on any of my IM clients and haven't chatted to in years other than very asynchronous messages now and then. Due to the large community of Facebook I think this has the potential to therefore really be useful to many.

Facebook Chat currently relies on a user having Facebook up and this being the current focus, but as soon as:

a) the web client is unleashed from this constraint,

b) Facebook provides an alternative desktop client and/or message alert, or better yet

c) Facebook opens up the API for all

then I think we will see a decline in IM client use or IM client vendors rapidly trying to provide a frontend for Facebook.

With Microsoft's investment in Facebook, perhaps there is already work going on behind the scenes in this space already.

Comments

  1. AnonymousApril 29, 2008 at 8:05 AM

    Maybe Simon but to be honest I'd rather they just opened up the API so my FB contacts could appear in my GTalk window - so it's not that FB chat rocks per se, more that the chat with the largest number of users rocks.....

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  2. Simon GianoutsosApril 29, 2008 at 9:25 PM

    Totally agree. The walled garden of Facebook is definitely not ideal.

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