Skype and Facebook join forces on chat

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Skype and Facebook join forces

Skype and Facebook joined forces Thursday to let users of the popular Internet communications service chat with their friends on the booming social network.

 

[Whiptaka]

This will completely remove the need for me to log into Facebook at all, since I practically use Skype 24/7. Cool feature.

 

[antowan]

Neat!

 

[Chunkyfeather]

Does this mean businesses will now ban skype in more instances...lol!

 

[Nimz]

cool stuff!

 

[hungrybeaver]

 

[DavidKinnes]

I suppose the Linux version of Skype now falls further behind, for god sakes release and API.

 

[prodigyX]

this would be so badass if i could skype my facebook contacts from my android phone

 

[iCubed.Saajid]

This is not good for businesses who allow their employees to use Skype for legitimate business purposes. Skype is already hard enough to block on a network, as it runs on port 80.

Now with the Facebook functionality added, this is going to cause more problems. Does the Facebook functionality also run through port 80, allowing users to circumvent firewalls? Will traditional firewall rules to block the facebook domain(s) be good enough?

I wonder if Skype will release 2 seperate versions - one with the Facebook integration, and one without. If they do, Skype will then have to support 2 different versions going forward. Otherwise business will we have to keep their employees stuck on older versions to prevent Facebook usage through Skype. Unless Skype gets more innovative to solve this problem for us.

 

[Valerion]

Since you also can't delete chat history any more on Facebook, I can foresee this causing embarrassment for some people down the line.

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_new...ebook-users-can-no-longer-delete-chat-history

 

[dualmeister]

Feature works well. Nice one.

 

[Nerfherder]

this would be so badass if i could skype my facebook contacts from my android phone

Get a Blackberry....

 

[Leftfoot]

Up to nine video calls simultaneously ....tried it with 3, AWESOME!

 

[The_Unbeliever]

facebook + bing (microsoft)...

now...

skype + facebook, eh?


nein danke.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Up to nine video calls simultaneously ....tried it with 3, AWESOME!

does it chow your bandwidth?

 

[Leftfoot]

DIDNT check...it was very brief! ....I dont really have bandwidth issues anymore....

 

[vzta22]

Get a Blackberry....

Can you do skype on blackberry? Do local operators allow use of skype service on their networks through mobile phones? Is it free once you buy their blackberry bundle?

 

[Leftfoot]

Up to nine video calls simultaneously ....tried it with 3, AWESOME!

Grrrrr!...its a 28day free trial!!!

 

[rorz0r]

this would be so badass if i could skype my facebook contacts from my android phone

You can get nimbuzz and log in to skype and facebook chat already.

 

[w1z4rd]

This is not good for businesses who allow their employees to use Skype for legitimate business purposes. Skype is already hard enough to block on a network, as it runs on port 80.

Now with the Facebook functionality added, this is going to cause more problems. Does the Facebook functionality also run through port 80, allowing users to circumvent firewalls? Will traditional firewall rules to block the facebook domain(s) be good enough?

I wonder if Skype will release 2 seperate versions - one with the Facebook integration, and one without. If they do, Skype will then have to support 2 different versions going forward. Otherwise business will we have to keep their employees stuck on older versions to prevent Facebook usage through Skype. Unless Skype gets more innovative to solve this problem for us.

If you are doing port blocking to control applications you are doing it all wrong. Application/Protocol level filtering solves this one time.