They will be online from beginning to end in a live Facebook chat session.

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Agreeing on an open standard for chat is just the beginning of a painful transformation for portals.

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But a switch to the BBC in 1971 saw him beginning an 11-year run of the Saturday-night chat show which would make him a household name.

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