TECHCRUNCH
MARK HENDRICKSON
1 APRIL 08
When Facebook rolls out its chat application (”Facebook Chat”) sometime this week, users are going to see an instant messaging bar at the bottom of their screen wherever they go on the site. And they won’t even have to install that bar; it will be put there automatically for everyone. That’s the power of complete and instantaneous distribution possessed by Facebook alone, and it’s what made us declare all 3rd party IM apps on Facebook as “basically dead”.
So you’d expect no more Social.IM or ">Friendvox’s
to crop up, but a newly launched service called Babuki IM still thinks it has a chance to become the preferred IM client on Facebook.
