Babuki.com - Another IM Takes on Facebook

Babuki’s a little cocky. It’s got a hint of swagger going on and a smarmy grin plastered on its bright, shiny, new face. Why? Babuki is the latest in instant messaging applications to hit Facebook and the nets. Launching another chatting app is akin to launching another Facebook with the expectation that it’ll do Facebook numbers. This is an especially enduring feat because Facebook is in the midst of introducing its very own chat to the Facebook nation. No downloading required. Babuki, on the other hand is an installed app that allows you to chat with Gtalk, MSN, AIM, ICQ, MySpace, Livejournal, and Yahoo friends from your desktop or the web. It’ll automatically bring you to your Facebook page and add your friends so you can chat with them whenever you log on. If you’re not really wanting to talk to some of your so-called friends, no worries—you can go invisible for certain friends. Babuki also offers a mail client and SMS accessible through Facebook. Everything is free.

“Now all your contacts are in one place wherever you are. There's no need to create an account and you only have to add details for the other IM networks once.”

Babuki is an innovative chat that offers interoperability between Facebook, and all the other major chat applications out there. It has plenty of features that Facebook users might welcome to keep their friends in check.

Can Babuki survive once Facebook’s chat launches? Will users like its features enough to forgo Facebook? Should that fail, what else does Babuki have up its sleeve?