Why is it that all of a sudden everyone has started to rush in over to Facebook? We reported of Microsoft pushing out its Silverlight Client for Facebook and big names like HP, Best Buy and Intel joining hands to roll out Skateboarder. An more recently the abundance of virtual gifts exchange before the Valentines Day thanks to Zynga. Earlier today, AOL stepped in with its bit of Facebook-ishness with integration of Facebook Chat with AIM.
I guess we will be seeing more of these integrations coming up as many online entities would try and associate themselves with the ever expanding social network. While that’s just one side of the story, the coming of Google Buzz would definitely have got Facebook thinking of introducing more features to stay very far ahead of Google. I don’t know why I end up drawing comparisons every now and then, but that is where many things end up eventually.
There isn’t really something huge coming out of this, but its just one more way it is trying or rather being helped by others to find one more way to step into your life. Other than that, from AIL’s perspective, the move is more than just obvious since more than three fourth its users are already on Facebook. This would only help AOL give its users a reason to continue using its service or should I say, its client.
