Facebook's Creative Labs have come up with an app that's very un-Facebook: anonymous (technically, pseudonymous) chat, in Rooms. For iOS only at the moment, Rooms seeks to rekindle the early Internet phenomenon of strangers on forums, chat rooms, and message boards connecting with each other over common interests.
This week in social media, Facebook launched a new app as CEO Mark Zuckerberg impressed everyone with his Chinese language skills. Meanwhile, Twitter is planning to kill the password for good, Skype launched its own Snapchat clone, Snapchat launched its first ads, Tumblr embraced video in a big way, and upstart Ello got attention by legally promising to never advertise on its social network.
