Facebook’s Messenger platform, a dedicated chat interface for the web, is now live. Messages can still be sent via Facebook.com, however Messenger is targeted for those who want to exclusively chat on the platform without the clutter of the social content from the main site. This news was first reported by TheNextWeb yesterday, although the service seems to have gone live only today. According to Facebook, the desktop messaging service is meant to be ‘complementary to the Messenger mobile app’. To use the platform, users can login using Facebook credentials at Messenger.com. On logging in the platform displays a window with all contacts on the left, on which users can click to start a chat. On the right, the platform displays information about the person a user is currently conversing with, along with an option to mute the conversation. The service also pulls all of the user’s conversations from Facebook, so users can pick up conversations from where they had left off on Facebook. Additionally, the platform makes it easy to add other users into a conversation, make audio or video calls and add attachments to the conversation. Interestingly, at the F8 last month, Facebook had announced it would let developers develop apps for its Messenger platform. As a start the company had launched around 40 new apps, including ones from Imgur, Talking Tom, Ditty, Effictigy, ESPN, GIFjam and Kanvas. While these features are live on the Messenger apps, they are not yet available on its desktop counterpart. The web interface…
