Comments on: IDEA #67 – Desktop/Mobile IM Client for Facebook

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:23:00 +0000

this has been done by Facebook as of now, I believe, on the mobile side. On the desktop side, clients like Pidgin and Empathy support Facebook natively these days, if memory serves.

By: Steve Poland

Steve Poland — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:39:25 +0000

http://mashable.com/2007/09/25/facebook-im-2/

By: Arik

Arik — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:01:20 +0000

Actually there’re already few Facebook/IM applications:
1. SocialBox by Atrexis – a Facebook Application that lets you login to your IM account (Jabber/Gmail, ICQ, MSN, etc..) and also chat with Facebook friends that have installed this pplication.
2. SoapBox Communicator – a social IM messenger. There’s also a version for integration with Facebook (http://www.soapbox.net/facebook.aspx).
3. Fuze by Mike Huntington – an AIR based IM applications. On the first posts about the beta version Mike stated that this meant to be the Facebook IM application, but in later posts he writes that Facebook support will be added in the PRO version.
(http://www.mikehuntington.com/techblog/index.php/2007/08/25/fuze-beta-011-is-here-messenger-built-using-air/)

By: Steve Poland

Steve Poland — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:42:23 +0000

Or Microsoft's Silverlight.

By: Scott T.

Scott T. — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:21:01 +0000

Adobe’s Integrated Runtime: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/ aka Apollo. Uses html/javascript/css/Flash but runs on the desktop instead of the browser. Windows/Mac cross-platform.

By: James D Kirk

James D Kirk — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:12:42 +0000

@Scott T: What’s an “AIR app”? TIA

By: Scott T.

Scott T. — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:42:32 +0000

Sounds like a great candidate for an AIR app…