{"id":3462,"date":"2011-08-09T14:38:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T19:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=3462"},"modified":"2011-08-09T15:09:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T20:09:28","slug":"beluga-becomes-facebook-messenger-for-noemail-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/beluga-becomes-facebook-messenger-for-noemail-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"Beluga becomes Facebook Messenger for #noemail communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook acquired <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/03\/01\/facebook-beluga\/\">the mobile messaging company Beluga back in March of this year<\/a>. Since then Facebook has been working on their competitor to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/mobile\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&#038;answer=1304763\">Google Plus Huddle<\/a> which provides a similar service &#8212; easy quick group messaging. Since Huddle isn&#8217;t available on the iPhone as yet, Facebook took the advantage today as<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/08\/09\/facebook-messenger\/#23003Login-Screen-iPhone\"> it announced Beluga rebranded with some improvements as Facebook Messenger<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The release is interestingly coincides with reports that use of RIM Blackberry BBM has outstripped the use of Facebook and Twitter &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/08\/08\/london-riots-blackberry-messenger\/\">in the London riots (only<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had Beluga on my phone but not done too much with it (running txt thru Google Voice to save charges ;->). Looking to download Messenger now. Let me know if you&#8217;ve found and are trying it. At the moment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mobile\/messenger\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mobile\/messenger<\/a> says &#8220;Messenger will be available soon. Please check back later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Beluga\" src=\"http:\/\/6.mshcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/beluga-facebook.jpg\" title=\"Beluga\"  width=\"180\" height=\"113\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mobile\/messenger\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook Messenger\" src=\"http:\/\/4.mshcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/fb-messenger-360.jpg\" title=\"Facebook Messenger\" width=\"180\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook acquired the mobile messaging company Beluga back in March of this year. Since then Facebook has been working on their competitor to Google Plus Huddle which provides a similar service &#8212; easy quick group messaging. Since Huddle isn&#8217;t available on the iPhone as yet, Facebook took the advantage today as it announced Beluga rebranded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noemail","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3470,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions\/3470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}