Comments on: On Eve of Facebook Chat, Babuki Takes a Chance

By: 1

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:52:17 +0000

nice one

By: imo.im chat is on fire

imo.im chat is on fire — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:15:24 +0000

[...] On Eve of Facebook Chat, Babuki Takes a Chance [...]

By: Mark G

Mark G — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:37:10 +0000

It would be nice if the app actually worked. I get indefinite time outs when I try and run it. Tut tut. Have they not heard of EC2?

By: David

David — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:06:29 +0000

I vote for Digsby !

Thats a groovy cross platform client that has a facebook app that allows facebook users to IM you from your profile without you having to login to facebook

Got a whole rack of other features too.

ttfn

By: Harry Wang

Harry Wang — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:17:34 +0000

Upon further inspection, that site’s name looks like a mistype of bukkake.

Harry “not afraid to jizz with more than one other around” Wang

By: SutroStyle

SutroStyle — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:17:27 +0000

They thought it’s time to lock down the developers like Microsoft did in 1993. All I can say is buhahahah. Zuck is no Bill gates. Read my lips.

By: Smart

Smart — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:18:35 +0000

@Zach – I totally agree. They did it with polls, their wall, they’re doing it with chat. The worst part is, I don’t see how they make a dime off of this other than a small increase in ad revenue.

@Mark – Sure, but if they keep eating their young (i.e. developers) there will be noone left to use the payment system.

By: Zach Weisman

Zach Weisman — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:05:29 +0000

I’d like to use this but I think I wait for some momentum…

I’d like to use it simply because I don’t like how facebook can compete with its application developers yet they don’t have to follow the self imposed rules. If they want to stimulate applicaton development and truly become the platform of the future, then why are they COMPETING with their developers whenever an application actually appears lucrative?

By: team ray

team ray — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:05:33 +0000

text chat is lame so 98

live chat is whats needed

By: Mark Hendrickson

Mark Hendrickson — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:16:28 +0000

@Smart – they’re working on a payment system right now, expect it to be out this year

By: Smart

Smart — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:04:34 +0000

Can someone explain the point of Facebook chat to me? Why make another feature on a site that is already user-rich and money poor?

Build a payment transactions system.
Build paid enterprise-ready services.
Build an ad platform for developers.
Add shops and merchant pages.

So many things to make money on, and yet they decide to invest in a commodity like chat!? … I hear a high pitched wine of something coming in fast …

By: AJH

AJH — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:19:37 +0000

Is there any doubt that Meebo will add Facebook chat immenently, thereby squeezing out any other web-based chat aggregators? Is there any doubt that Trillian will do the same for the desktop chat aggregator space? *scratches head*

By: iYobo

iYobo — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:18:37 +0000

very neat, i like it

i think Facebook is going the mile by integrating these features all together in a fashionable manner, the site is becoming a one stop for almost all the internet needs for most users. however you cant be EVERYTHING in one place. As far as i see it by now, the market of facebook is very focused on its own self. Google and Yahoo have nothing to worry about, Facebook is a social network that has its limits at the end of the day, same like myspace.

By: sky

sky — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:58:19 +0000

No chance. What a waste of time. Oxford dropout… Useless. Stanford / Harvard dropouts are better!

By: dave

dave — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:18:47 +0000

I reckon they’ll do alright. Even meebo hasn’t managed to integrate with MySpace and Livejournal so should be able to pick a few users on their webversion with that. a Desktop version is a bonus too

By: Sam Davyson

Sam Davyson — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:04:36 +0000

Not a hope…

Of all the heavy Facebook users that I’ve told about the upcoming chat integration almost all have said “Oh no… I don’t want that — I’ll waste even more time on Facebook”.

People aren’t going to go out of there way for this.

By: Frank Church

Frank Church — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:40:55 +0000

@ John McClore, agreed. Bloatware is pervasive, and clutters the experience of many, once good, services (eg. website annotation tools).

@Mark, most people already have AIM, MSmess, Trillian, or Adium; I’m the only one I know with AIR installed (I know that will change, but).

By: Mark Hendrickson

Mark Hendrickson — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:20:02 +0000

@John McClore – Babuki comes as a desktop app too

@LA Guy – Mosoto seems down for the count

By: Brett

Brett — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:02:38 +0000

I think this will also be the end of AIM for the college crowd…sorry startups but nice job facebook, one of the only smart things (from a user experience perspective) I’ve heard coming out of there since pre-application days (disclaimer, I hate third party app invites and everything associated).

The ability to hide from certain facebook friend, or only enable certain friends to chat with you is a FANTASTIC idea and I hope one that facebook integrates.

By: chris at trade2save

chris at trade2save — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:59:20 +0000

Nothing beats Adium as far as I’m concerned.

By: John C. McClore

John C. McClore — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:55:48 +0000

I’ll stick with AIM and Windows Messenger. I don’t want a browser window open for IM. Facebook is comitting the same crime as everyone else. They put so much bloatware into their product it loses the value everyone intially saw in it and eventually becomes obsolete. Pages take so long to load nowadays and it’s full of bugs. Take a page out of Apple’s book and tightly regulate your environment–the open platform was initially a good idea, but it’s just ruining Facebook in the long run. What a shitty website.

By: LA Guy

LA Guy — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:55:23 +0000

Damn .. It looks just like mosoto !! Search for mosoto on flickr and get the screenshots.

babuki copied mosoto !

http://www.tech....com/tag/mosoto .

Facebook chat ..

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:52:25 +0000

Facebook: Waa-Waa…

http://evansnyder.com

By: SoftwareSweatshop

SoftwareSweatshop — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:46:59 +0000

Babuki, eh? Let’s see if they’re any good.

Raza Imam
http://SoftwareSweatshop.com

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:18:07 +0000

What a joke…