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Facebook and Vivox are bringing voice to the social network , and social games are the ones that should be cheering.

Last week, when I read the news about Vivox’s voice plug-in coming to Facebook, it got me thinking about what the  integration of voice capabilities into general-purpose, consumer facing social networks would mean. Like most people, my initial reaction is to cringe. You can’t blame me for feeling that way, especially if you’ve experienced the interruption of Facebook Chat messages from random connections popping up willy-nilly during work hours. That said, when I get past [...]