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"Instant messaging (IM) has been around for a long time.  Hell, it actually predates the Internet, yet it's an ubiquitous and essential part of our social online experience.  So we want to know: Which instant messaging tool is best?\nTo figure out the answer to this question, we want you, the readers, to decide.  This week's Web Faceoff, our weekly series where we pit web apps against one another for your vote, focuses on three of the biggest and best-known IM clients: Facebook Chat (FbChat), Google Talk (GTalk) and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)\nAIM is the oldest and largest of the IM clients by far,  but both Gtalk and FbChat serve billions of IMs every single day.  Is GTalk's integration with e-mail enough to overcome AIM, or does Facebook's 350+ million users give its chat service the edge?\nWe'll let you decide the answer that question.  The poll below closes on Friday, January 29 at 12:00 p.m. PT.  Let us know your allegiance in the comments:\n\n\n\nWho would win in a fight: AIM, GTalk, or FbChat?(surveys)\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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