Live Messenger Web Bar vs. Facebook Chat: Intentionally similar?

Imran Hussain

# 01 Apr 2009 Wednesday 20:33

Well, you went into great detail, but any chat bar at the bottom of a website now seems similar to Facebook chat. Whether it’s WLM or any other one. Also, if my wildest guess is correct, we might see Facebook/WLM chat interoperability down the road since Microsoft has shares in Facebook. This could be a reason for the similarity.

Daniel Garcia

# 01 Apr 2009 Wednesday 21:49

Also, FB Connect and WL Controls are implemented in a very similar XHTML format. Very similar, in fact, it almost looks as if the controls share a common language library. Interesting…

Jamie

# 02 Apr 2009 Thursday 03:57

should put it on Windows Live Hotmail could be better then the popout.aspx they had before (although web im is more a peek and show feature). it could also be windows live wide (skydrive, spaces, home in particular)

in regards to the facebook web activity it was reported by techcrunch claimed a source of an april launch

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/19/coming-soon-to-a-windows-live-profile-near-you-facebook-updates/, and possiblity @ http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2009 (31st March - 3rd April) Liveside also reported using the techcrunch article http://liveside.net/main/archive/2009/03/21/windows-live-facebook-integration-coming-in-april.aspx

Abhinav K

# 08 Jun 2009 Monday 21:09

Microsoft has some significant shares in Facebook Inc…so this could a reason for the similarity. Also Windows Live has taken some serious steps to increase interoperability with Facebook. viz Now you could manage and watch your facebook profile right from your Windows Live.

Nathan

# 23 Jun 2009 Tuesday 08:30

not what I am looking for again email me if you know were to get like a facebook chat bottom bar thingy were your website visitors can chat with each other it also needs to be free cadillacfreak@gmail.com

Ryan

# 16 Aug 2009 Sunday 02:08

i got the windows live bar for my site but when i implement it to the footer it doesnt show the sign in bar only the windowslivemessenger one could you help me please, im using vbulletin on my site thanks for anything