Put Facebook Chat on Your Own Site

Yesterday, Adam Ostrow wrote about a new tool which combines Userplane’s chat technology and Converdge‘s white label social network platform to enable websites to include chat within their websites. The new instant message chat client mimics the functionality of the highly popular Facebook chat application.

While chat on your website is not really a new thing, the similarities between this design and the design of Facebook’s instant message client are striking. As Adam points out though, the functionality of this new client is a little more full featured than what Facebook currently provides. “Beyond simple text messaging, there’s video chat, VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol calling, and games, for example.”

For those looking to integrate this new chat on your website, you are going to need be running Converdge for it to work unfortunately. This new platform looks pretty slick and I’m guessing that we’ll see more of this type of chat interface in the near future. Have you found chats that are integrated into other websites to be of use?

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