Chawlk

1. Drawar
2. Fenxy
3. Decaflon
4. Two Credits
5. Wriging
6. Loose Suits
7. Chixe
8. Dud3s
9. Wing Colors

 

I found it this morning and I can't stop playing with it, it's REALLY nicely done.

I love how it follows you around.

Yeah I agree, they did an awesome job implementing it, and it's not in the way at all of normal browsing on Facebook. I don't think I'll use it a whole lot, but I do like the feature.

I wonder if this note has anything to do with it but I suddenly have a CRAPLOAD of friends online @ facebook.com now :)

@RightOn, I bet that's from the "People You May Know" part of Facebook that's fairly new too.

I love that feature as well, I've found TONS of people that way

So when do we get this for Chawlk? :)

It's slick I will agree but it completely freaked me out when I logged into Facebook this evening and suddenly people were trying to chat with me. I guess it is because I don't use IM that much, that I have got used to my internet conversations being asynchronous through email, comments and the like. I am a grumpy cow who is very hard to entice into conversation, so I liked that I could have slow-running conversations with people when I had the time to give them.

Now there is chat on Facebook and *whimper* people keep trying to talk to me in real time when I am trying to do other things like write some much needed content for my blog! Then I disconnect chat or ignore them and they think I am being rude and...

*wah*

I am just throwing my toys out of the pram because people have been messing with something I use regularly without me knowing they were going to be messing.

Yes the implementation is pretty snazzy. Yes it brings another reason for people to live even more of their life in Facebook, but am I going to get much use out of it? I doubt it because the majority of the people I know on Facebook I either (1) talk to on a daily basis face to face or via the phone or (2) live in a completely incompatible timezone.

Most of the people I connect with on Facebook are old friends in other states or even countries so it's working well for me.

You can make yourself show as offline though, which might be what you're looking for.

For all the code geeks I found an article that discusses how Facebook went about developing this wonderful chat.

Its pretty cool but I tend to open a lot of tabs while on Facebook and im pretty convinced that its crashing my browser :P

Nice article Scrivs, just reading it now

I'm quite impressed that it uses XMPP / Jabber and I've heard that it's going to be opened up so that you can use a regular client for it.

Hopefully between this and Google Chat (that is bundled in with Gmail so lots of people have it), an open standard for instant messaging will take over and eventually force the hand of the old closed networks.

I'd love to just use Jabber for everything and not have to worry about friends with accounts locked in to MSN or similar.

the next build of Adium is said to have support for Facebook Chat :)