Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Facebook Chat
Facebook has been working on chat for some time, and it now appears to have rolled out to the world.
Two features are worth noting. FIrst of all, it's implemented at the bottom of Facebook windows in the border (which is now expanded). This happens seamlessly to app developers because apps live within the Facebook frame and Facebook can make changes like this without impacting (well-behaved) applications. Of course, there's a limit to what you can do with the frame, because there's never enough real estate on a computer display, but a small and elegant interface like this fits in beautifully.
Second, Facebook chat builds on your Facebook friends. The whole thing is a solid structure of real people and relationships. The more I work on Facebook, the more I think that the real people/real names aspect of it is the key issue.
Two features are worth noting. FIrst of all, it's implemented at the bottom of Facebook windows in the border (which is now expanded). This happens seamlessly to app developers because apps live within the Facebook frame and Facebook can make changes like this without impacting (well-behaved) applications. Of course, there's a limit to what you can do with the frame, because there's never enough real estate on a computer display, but a small and elegant interface like this fits in beautifully.
Second, Facebook chat builds on your Facebook friends. The whole thing is a solid structure of real people and relationships. The more I work on Facebook, the more I think that the real people/real names aspect of it is the key issue.
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