"PALO ALTO, Calif. — Hoping to give its users a more intimate, real-time way to stay in touch, Facebook introduced video chat on Wednesday in a partnership with Skype, the Internet calling service.It’s a way to connect with friends other than just posting messages, said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and chief executive, who announced the service on Wednesday here at the company’s headquarters. Facebook’s foray into video chatting comes a week after Google introduced Google+, its latest and most serious challenge yet in social networking. That service, which had its debut last week in a limited test, includes video chatting for up to 10 people in an area of the site called Hangouts.
To a certain extent, Facebook is playing catch-up. The new Facebook service does not allow for group video chats, for example. It also is not available on mobile phones, unlike Skype’s ordinary service. At Wednesday’s event, Mr. Zuckerberg also announced that Facebook now had 750 million users worldwide.
Details of how the new video chatting will work are posted on Facebook’s blog. It will be available to all users in the next few weeks, the blog says."
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