When social networking site Facebook's instant messaging service launched for select users last week, talk of Facebook Chat wholly devouring the IM industry soon followed. The New York Post ran a ...

Facebook's chat feature is normally used from the Facebook website, but you can also use Facebook chat from within a variety of instant messaging programs. Facebook's chat uses the standard XMPP, also ...

These chat apps — which can be described as cross-platform or multiprotocol IM apps — support more than one instant messaging network. Instead of having the AIM and Yahoo Messenger chat programs ...

I have been looking at meebo, an IM chat program that is entirely browser-based (thus nothing to download and install), and in addition to its own account allows you to register your AIM, Yahoo!, ...