Facebook may be about to introduce a video chat feature if evidence found in the social network’s site code is to be believed.
Tal Alter from Green Any Site was working on a Facebook application when he came across an object in the Facebook site code called VideoChat. The options listed with the object made it clear this was for a video streaming service (see image above), and it even contains references to Skype.
Further digging by Tal found hooks for support in Internet Explorer, plugin support for ActiveX, and links for the Skype SDK. He also discovered Facebook is bucket testing this feature with certain groups of users as the object wasn’t appearing every time Tal refreshed the page he was looking at.
All the evidence points to Facebook introducing its own video chat platform as part of the social network, or at the very least allowing access to video through 3rd party solutions such as Skype. [Geek]
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