'TIL WE HAVE FACEBOOK:

Facebook throws down online chat challenge (Kevin Allison, March 20, 2008, Financial Times)

Facebook plans to launch a new service that will enable the social network website's 60m users to chat with each other online.

The service, which is expected to roll out sometime in the next few weeks, represents Facebook's latest challege to AOL, Microsoft and other makers of popular instant messaging programmes.