Facebook announced this morning that its wildly popular Instant Messaging service now supports the open IM standard XMPP/Jabber. Facebook’s instant message service, Chat, has been live on other sites for more than a year. But now the company is officially announcing that it is available to use within third-party IM clients, and within other IM services.
Like Google does [...]
Silicon Valley was taken over last week by the Web2.0 Expo happening in San Francisco.
I attended the Keynotes, visited the Expo and Web2Open sessions on thurs and friday.
Web2.0 being the Social Web seems an accepted notion among everyone now. All focus was on how to build out real social web beyond the social networks.
Many announcements [...]