Facebook Launches Ad Hoc Group Chat, New Chat Design, And Video Chat With Skype

Title changed to whatever page's title is and I can't edit. Here is the original title: "Facebook bans video calling app, steals their url" and the link points to a specific comment on the page.

I'm currently watching the Yankees game. Jeter had a chance for his 3000th hit (looks like only he'll only hit 2998 tonight).

Anyway I found myself with Facebook, Google Plus and Twitter all open at various times, but what I was really looking for was a chatroom with a persistent feel and a sense of temporary community/familiarity.

Basically IRC, but easily discoverable topic based channels. IRC requires too much foreknowledge about servers and channels to find an active one on a whim.

Twitter is screaming into a void.

Facebook requires me to already know the people (Yankees and Jeter page don't allow comments). I can't tell if ad hoc group chat is generic or requires me to invite participants.

I thought Google Sparks would be the answer, but that just seems to be a news feed.

Battle.net had a nice solution where channels had a cap on people joined and they would just overflow to the topic-n+1 channel.

Anyone know of a feature like that? Maybe message rate limits on channels to know when to overflow new joiners into a topic-n+1 channel (or join them to a stagnating channel)? Am I missing anything with the current services?

Wow that was a rambling post.

Perhaps 'Window Cill' will soon lose their vanity URL too, if the vibes reference in Facebook video calling reference is true! http://www.facebook.com/vibes