Update (2): If you don’t want to wait until a link to the new Video Call service appears on your Facebook page, click this URL and you can begin using Facebook’s video chat right now.
Update: The Live Facebook Event Has Ended.
A replay of Mark Zuckerberg’s talk and introduction of the new Facebook services is available here
Fast Facts
- Facebook now has more than 750 million users
- Users share 4 billion things each day via Facebook
- “Ad-Hoc” Group Text Chat (Roll Out Begins Today)
- New Chat Design (Adapts to Size of Screen)
- One-to-One Video Calls (Powered by Skype)
- “Video calling will be available to everyone over the next few weeks, but if you don’t want to wait, you can get it now.”
- Facebook Stresses Ease of Getting Online
Read the Formal Announcement From Facebook
Coverage from Search Engine Land (Review of entire event including Q&A)