12:39:58
facebook chat!
it finally launched for the Arizona network this morning at 1am! Sooooo awesome. I can’t wait until I can synch it up with my IM client (pidgn) and talk to favebook people through the same program I use for gchat and AIM….
Yep, it seems to have launched in Britain today too. I don’t particularly want to have Facebook open in a browser all the time, just to chat, so it’ll be very convenient if/when Pidgin incorporates this service too.
If you haven’t used Pidgin yet, I highly recommend it. Most of my British friends are on MSN, but my cross-Atlantic buddies are all AIM-users, and it used to be a pain in the ass to run both programmes, with different settings and so forth.
Now, I just have one, can give everyone aliases so I don’t have to remember cryptic AIM-names, and can even use it for IRC. Ideal. Plus the chat windows are tabbed, so I only have one open at a time.