It seems the "awesome" feature due out this week from Facebook Seattle
will be unveiled at a press conference on July 6. The new feature will
apparently be an in-browser video and voice chat feature, built in
collaboration with Skype, if reports
citing insider sources are to be believed. The invite for the
conference can be seen below, and certainly, it seems to have something
to do with chat.
There will apparently also be a desktop
component for the software, based on the number of recent desktop
software hires at the Seattle office, something that will probably
integrate Facebook into Skype. For now, whether this will be part of
Skype, or an added update, is yet to be confirmed. Features such as News
Feed, and Phonebook look to be part of the integration.
This is not the first time that Facebook and Skype have partnered, with talks rumoured since last year. All this is made even more interesting by the fact that Microsoft is in the process of acquiring Skype, and that it also happens to be a major stakeholder in Facebook. Seems like a win-win situation.
