Comments on: Forget Whatsapp – Facebook Messages goes WebRTC – Big Time

By: Brian Gonsalves

Brian Gonsalves — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 12:10:44 +0000

Are you saving the Business tab on the messenger page for another blog post? That’s the biggest story there!

By: Gustavo Garcia

Gustavo Garcia — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:05:08 +0000

In reply to Philipp Hancke. { servers: [stun:stun.fbsbx.com:3478, turn:173.252.79.85:50023?transport=udp, turn:173.252.79.85:3478?transport=tcp, turn:173.252.79.85:443?transport=tcp], iceTransportType: all }

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:55:17 +0000

In reply to Varun Singh. Maybe Varun. I guess that developing on their own was made possible (and relatively cheap) by WebRTC that it made partnering and diluting their brand name not worth it.

By: Varun Singh

Varun Singh — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:52:05 +0000

If I understood correctly, their desire to build almost from the ground up is more to do with their ambition to measure and quantify everything.

By: Philipp Hancke

Philipp Hancke — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:07:31 +0000

In reply to Tsahi Levent-Levi. heh yeah. I was hoping for this to interoperate actually. Just found my notes... do they still run their TURN server on the odd port 50021?

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 12:50:43 +0000

In reply to Philipp Hancke.

Fippo, thanks.

I noticed that Facebook had it for awhile. The fact that they made it an integral part of their standalone webapp is the interesting part here – they definitely see value in it.

By: Philipp Hancke

Philipp Hancke — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 12:48:40 +0000

Well, the web part has been around for a while, since mid-january at least. It was quite similar to apprtc terms of architecture.

And the messenger.com app third party license notice shows both libjingle and webrtc.