Facebook announced instant messaging earlier this month as predictably predicted by TechCrunch. I’ve only just had the service activated on my Facebook account hence the delayed “ahh” moment.
Although the IM concept is by no means new (heq hem) I love the way Facebook has implemented their web-based rendition of the service. Elegantly simple and a quite a shining example of AJAX technology. Don’t you just love the way chat windows dock into the chat bar at the bottom?
[…] of the new homepage doesn’t quite come across as a smooth. Nothing like when they introduced Chat/IM which was a totally Facebook oriented solution to helping users communicate […]