Facebook made changes to the Facebook Chat sidebar feature, several users are reporting. Now, your favorite online friends appear in the top section of Chat, with a separate list titled "More Online Friends" underneath. This makes it easier to find the Facebook friends you chat with often.However, we've also seen reports where select users are getting a mini News Feed in their Chat sidebar instead. In somes cases, the News Feed appears above your contacts. This appears to be more of an experimen [...]

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The online dating market is heating up and a plethora of new services have arrived on the scene. Tagged, a large social network focused on helping others meet new people recently unveiled free iOS and Android apps to help others meet other local members and chat in real time. More after the jump.

“We approached 2011 with the goal of making Tagged easily accessible by every mobile device,” said Tagged’s CEO Greg Tseng. “Now we are taking the next step in delivering Tagged to everyone, [...]

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It was only a few hours ago that we got wind of Facebook's release of a standalone messaging product called Facebook Messenger for iOS and Android. The app focuses on doing messages and only messages, with the intention of being incredibly convenient instead of robust.If there's one missing feature, though, it's video chat integration. Given Facebook's recent moves with Skype to integrate video chat on the Facebook site, it would only seem to make sense that you could do video messaging and chat [...]

Read More: Facebook Messenger holds clues about planned mobile video chat

Video chat has been big for a while now, but with the launch of Google Plus’ Hangout and Facebook’s Skype integration, the buzz around the "Alive Web" is bigger than ever.  A new infographic from Column Five Media and Rounds compares the top players in the video chat game.


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Soon Facebook will be expanding its Chat product with video calling functionality, powered by Skype. It won't support group video calling, though, at least not at first, and we haven't heard anything about support on mobile phones so far.

Next week, Tinychat will submit a group video chat application that will work on both iOS devices and desktop browsers, and supports video chat sessions of up to 12 people at the same time.

Read More: Coming Soon: Tinychat’s 12-Way Group Video Chat App For Facebook

One of the questions I had when I broke the news last week about the Facebook/Skype partnership: Would group video chat be part of the product, and if so would it be free?

The answer is no, there's no group chat. Facebook says that one on one video chat is far more popular on Skype than group chat and so it makes sense to start there. But that's misdirection - group chat on Skype requires that at least one user be paying $4.49/month for premium service. So not a lot of group video chat happens [...]

Read More: Facebook Video Chat v. Google Hangouts: It’s No Contest

Soon Facebook will be expanding its Chat product with video calling functionality, powered by Skype. It won't support group video calling, though, at least not at first, and we haven't heard anything about support on mobile phones so far.

Next week, Tinychat will submit a group video chat application that will work on both iOS devices and desktop browsers, and support video chat sessions of up to 12 people at the same time.

Read More: Coming Soon: Tinychat’s 12-Way Group Video Chat App For Facebook

We tried something new last night. Yes, we hopped on the Twitter chat bandwagon. Yes it was painful. Why Another Twitter Chat? We did not want to create another Twitter chat that echoed the dozens already out there talking about social media. But we also wanted to capture the community and discussion that Twitter chats [...]

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