Facebook Introduces Group Chat, Video Calling

Facebook today launched group chat and video calling features in partnership with Skype – as expected and as was first reported by AllThingsD last September. It said the new features are the first in a string of upcoming product launches. Here's how it all went down. 10:15 am: Mark Zuckerberg kicks off: Today is the beginning of launch season 2011. First up, anecdote about how his elderly neighbor told him on the street this morning he wants Facebook to launch video chat. "I said, 'OK, tune in!'" Stepping back, Zuckerberg says people used to wonder about how big social networking would be. "I think that chapter is pretty much done at this point. … Now the world pretty generally believes that it is going to be everywhere. It's billions of people, whether it's us or someone else doing it, connecting all these people. "That's the last five years. What is the next? It's not wiring up the world, it's about what kind of cool social apps you're going to build now that you have this wiring, this social infrastructure in place."

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