Facebook Chat Integrated with AIM Instant Messaging Network

By ChatRooms.NET - 2010-02-10

Google introduced a new service called Google Buzz, a way for users of its Gmail service to share updates, photos and videos. The service will compete with sites like Facebook and Twitter, which are capturing an increasing percentage of the time people spend online.

At the same time, Facebook is staging its own incursion into the messaging business, where Google is more strongly positioned. Facebook plans to announce that it has embraced Jabber, a technical specification for real-time chats, allowing other makers of instant-messaging software to combine Facebook’s increasingly popular chat service with their own.

Facebook plans to announce on Wednesday that it is improving the Facebook live chat service on its site by allowing it to be integrated into other services like AIM, AOL’s instant messaging network, which is among the most popular in the United States.

As part of an ongoing effort to improve its user experience, Internet company AOL Inc. is letting users of its AIM instant-messaging service chat with friends on Facebook.

AOL plans to immediately incorporate Facebook chat into its popular AIM service, used by more than 17 million people a month. AIM users will be able to log into Facebook from AIM and see which Facebook friends are online and available to chat.

“We don’t aspire to be just a Web site where people connect and share with friends,” said Ethan Beard, director of the Facebook developer network and a former Google executive. “We want to be the underlying technology people use to connect with friends wherever they are on the Web.”

Once an AIM user downloads the new software and links it with their Facebook profile, their buddy list will include a list of online Facebook friends.

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