Facebook Announces Video Calling With Skype 102
An anonymous reader writes "As rumored and anticipated, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced video calling, powered by Skype. The company also revealed other chat improvements, including an option to see the friends you message most and group chat, and confirmed that it now has 750 million users."
Google out socialed Facebook (Score:3, Interesting)
Google out socialed Facebook with Hangout - it allows simultaneous video chat with multiple people and allows the group to watch a YouTube video and will probably soon allow sharing of stills and allow collaborative drawing or document editing, too.
Facebook's repost here is a feature that Google integrated into its chat product long ago. Maybe this explains Mark's obvious chagrin in his Google+ profile picture.
Re:How about disabling chat? (Score:2, Interesting)
You can either block the following:
*facebook.com/ajax/chat*
*facebook.com/images/chat*
*facebook.com/ajax/presence*
*.channel*.facebook.com/x/*/false/p_*
Or you can block the following IP range: .199
69.63.176.161 -
Or you can just select "Go Offline" in the Facebook chat app.