Google Talk appearing inside Gmail, and Facebook opening up to more than just .edu addresses both happened in 2006. Keep in mind, Gmail was still invite-only un

Google Talk appearing inside Gmail, and Facebook opening up to more than just .edu addresses both happened in 2006. Keep in mind, Gmail was still invite-only until 2007. In 2008 Facebook introduced Facebook Chat, and ever since then Google has acted [1] to try to challenge Facebook for social networking -- and this caused Google's communication offerings to alternatingly be neglected or leveraged for that cause [2]. Google didn't win. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16351254 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16351254 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13465483 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13465483