21
Sep
Voice chat coming to a Facebook near you!
Facebook, one of the most popular social
networking websites on the planet, was in the news this week for
having 300 million users, which is almost the same amount as
America's population last year (304 million!) and Facebook is also
releasing Facebook Lite. Facebook Lite is a slimmed down version of
Facebook that doesn't include some features such as Facebook chat.
It has been designed for users that have a limited internet speed
and has, so far, had a positive response.
Facebook chat was released on the 23rd of April 2008. The
feature allows users to communicate with each other through instant
messages. A feature that is very popular but there have been some
problems, including chat buddies that keep going offline,
maintenance and messages not being delivered.
That aside, Facebook has also announced that users will be able
to converse with their friends through the power of speech. The new
feature, which will probably be called 'Facebook Voice Chat', won't
be powered by Facebook but a third party company called Vivox.
Vivox is a company that designs voice communicating chat for online
games such as Everquest, Second life and Star Wars galaxies.
Troy Stanley, CTO of Resource Techniques,
predicts that 'Facebook Voice Chat' will be popular; 'Millions of
users will be able to chat to their friends, for free, on Facebook.
All users have to do is install a plug-in [an extension of your
browsers computer program] and they'll be able to speak to their
friends across the globe.
Troy Stanley continues "With Facebook being so
popular, I wouldn't be surprised if other online voice services
such as Skype saw a dip in usage. It will depend on how reliable
the service is."
Resource Techniques is an IT provider for property professionals
specialising in web design for estate agents, Search Engine
Optimisation (SEO) services and estate agent software. Click to
view our portfolio of estate agent website design or contact us for
more information.
Resource Techniques is an IT provider for property professionals
specialising in website design for estate agents, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) services and
estate agent software. Click to view our
portfolio of estate agent website design or
contact us for more information.
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