Using Facebook Connect and an open standard for IM, the social network is letting others tap into its chat service. AOL is one of them.

How to Open Facebook Chat in IM Client. 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.

The Facebook Chat Web app itself is easy and straightforward. Look to the bottom-right corner of an open Facebook browser window to see how many of your friends are online and available to chat.

How to Make Three-Way Chat on Facebook. Facebook Chat has evolved to enable more than simple one-to-one chatting. You can now talk to all members of a group using the Group Chat feature, for ...

Gizmodo reader Tal Ater agreed that Facebook's new chat system is a clusterzuck of confusion, so he created a little program to fix it! It will take off ...

Last week, the fine Facebook folk let us know (via the Facebook Help Center) that you can now sign in to Facebook's chat service using iChat. Of course, the free Adium client has directly ...

The client lets you persistently chat, receive notifications, and read your news feed from your desktop. Facebook says "For those of you on Macs, we’re busy working on Messenger for Mac right now.

If you dislike the new separate Facebook Messenger app, this Chat Re-Enabler app can restore the old feature directly within the main Facebook app.

When Facebook first announced its new instant messaging features many were disappointed to discover that the company had opted to use its own, closed chat system rather than an open protocol like ...