Facebook wants to be the single place for all your online communication – from messaging to photo sharing to status updates and instant messaging. Adding video chat, then, would seem like a logical next step. The revelation follows news this week that Facebook was adding Friend lists to chat.

The clues, first spotted by AllFacebook, point towards a likely move for the website. We’re open, of course, to the possibility that other developers are able to host their code on the Facebook CDN

It’s difficult to assess the impact of such a move. When Gtalk added support for video chat within Gmail(), it seemed like a blow to video chat leader Skype(). Except that the functionality wasn’t entirely web-based – it still required a download – and your email client isn’t a natural place for video chatting, which is more of a social experience than a means of productivity.

Facebook, however, may be able to play on its advantage: the social site is a natural venue for video chat, and if they can make it function without a download, there’s likely a huge market for video chat in schools and colleges that block downloaded software like Skype.

The world’s trendiest social networking site went desi on Friday. Facebook has introduced new features that can help members navigate in Hindi, Tamil and other regional Indian languages such as Bengali, Punjabi, Malayalam and Telugu.

Users can change language settings through the ‘settings’ tab or through the language option on their Facebook homepage.

In the increasingly multilingual Web, one can already cut and paste Tamil and Hindi scripts. The latest move helps instructions for browsing in Indian languages, but Facebook is not yet enabled for transliteration, which enables instant conversion of the English script turning into phonetic-based texts in other languages.

Facebook users can only browse through the site in the five regional languages and not message each other or update their status yet. Rival Google’s social networking site Orkut has Indian language transliteration in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.
Facebook is the second most popular networking site in India after Orkut, according to market research firm comScore.