Implement chat functionality in SharePoint

Question

Is there any way to implement chat functionality like Facebook in Sharepoint? Any such OOB functionality?

Answer 1

SharePoint isn't suitable for a ful scale Facebook copy in my opinion (for lots of technical and cost reasons) but there are companies out there that have products that provide some Facebook like functionality on top of SharePoint. Have a look at Sepulveda to start with.

Creating your own is going to be a heck of a lot of work and well out of scope for any kind of answer that could be provided in a Q&A site like this.