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 When Facebook famously updated their internal chat service, it was widely ridiculed as being useless and annoying. Hejibits.com captured the tone of the reaction brilliantly. Such is life when major change is introduced, although, the...

 A minor update hit Facebook today as it added an indicator to your profile that alerts friends to your online status.  On the home page, friends available for chat still reside on the left side and you still have the expandable grey...

 Five months ago, Microsoft announced that Hotmail users in Brazil, France, Germany, Russia, the U.K., and the U.S. could begin to chat with their Facebook friends while checking their email.  Now the integration of Hotmail and Facebook...

 It’s over a year ago when we covered the launch of 6rounds, a consumer-facing video chat platform with a couple of interesting twists that made it a lot of fun to use, reports TechCrunch. Henceforth, the startup and service will be...

 A few days ago, Facebook broke its text-and-photo format wide open and launched instant Skype video calling for Facebook friends. The timing was odd--or perfect--as Google had just introduced Google+, a social initiative that had a group...

Good news. There's an iphone application that will allow users to use Messenger, including chatting with other Messenger contacts, sharing photos, archiving conversations, and entering a custom status message. Only problem is that you can't...

The iChatr app has been removed from the App Store due to "a number of users exposing themselves during the random video chat sessions." What did Apple think was going to happen when they approved it?, reports Gizmodo It's really too...

 As we heard tonight, Facebook has officially launched Places, the social network’s location-based platform. We know what Places will mean for Facebook users. Users will be able to check-in to Places (created by both people and...