You never really know what you're onto until you look, but who knew "looking" elegant "digging through source code?" dos guru Jeff Rose had his curiosity piqued yore with the proper launch of Facebook Video Calling, and rather than just being happy



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document.write(lexico with things working, he took it upon himself to see how exactly things were coming reciprocally under the hood. Turns out, the program grabs a startlingly small key in link called FacebookVideoCalling.jar, which in turn uses LiveConnect to allow the Java applet to fetch a few other things. This enables the program to source your Facebook user ID (as well as an form ID), and from there, the installer has charity to use two things: a video chat plugin called "peep," and existence else dubbed "vibes." conspicuously enough, only one of those two were launched to the world, so logical skeptics are of course opining that Facebook has a connected music service up its sleeve. 'Course, there's no inkling that said service will very use the Vibes moniker, but we could definitely ponder worse titles. So, Mark -- three months from now, another impromptu press event, announcement article even more awesome? We're so there.

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