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Facebook Launches Ad Hoc Group Chat, New Chat Design, And Video Chat With Skype

18 points by gsharma 15y ago

gsharma 15y ago
Title changed to whatever page's title is and I can't edit. Here is the original title: "Facebook bans video calling app, steals their url" and the link points to a specific comment on the page.
- nostromo 15y ago
  Might have been better to link directly to their blog entry: http://www.samuday.in/blog/2011/04/discontinuation_video_calling_application http://www.samuday.in/blog/2011/04/discontinuation_video_cal... or the discussion on Facebook Developer's Forum: http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=95475 http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=95475
  - gsharma 15y ago
    I thought about it, but blog post didn't have the URL context.
andyv88 15y ago
Perhaps 'Window Cill' will soon lose their vanity URL too, if the vibes reference in Facebook video calling reference is true! http://www.facebook.com/vibes http://www.facebook.com/vibes
- gsharma 15y ago
  Most likely. Even Kevin Celebi can lose it too. https://www.facebook.com/musicvibes https://www.facebook.com/musicvibes
parfe 15y ago
I'm currently watching the Yankees game. Jeter had a chance for his 3000th hit (looks like only he'll only hit 2998 tonight). Anyway I found myself with Facebook, Google Plus and Twitter all open at various times, but what I was really looking for was a chatroom with a persistent feel and a sense of temporary community/familiarity. Basically IRC, but easily discoverable topic based channels. IRC requires too much foreknowledge about servers and channels to find an active one on a whim. Twitter is screaming into a void. Facebook requires me to already know the people (Yankees and Jeter page don't allow comments). I can't tell if ad hoc group chat is generic or requires me to invite participants. I thought Google Sparks would be the answer, but that just seems to be a news feed. Battle.net had a nice solution where channels had a cap on people joined and they would just overflow to the topic-n+1 channel. Anyone know of a feature like that? Maybe message rate limits on channels to know when to overflow new joiners into a topic-n+1 channel (or join them to a stagnating channel)? Am I missing anything with the current services? Wow that was a rambling post.

18 points by gsharma 15y ago

Title changed to whatever page's title is and I can't edit. Here is the original title: "Facebook bans video calling app, steals their url" and the link points to a specific comment on the page.

nostromo 15y ago
Might have been better to link directly to their blog entry: http://www.samuday.in/blog/2011/04/discontinuation_video_calling_application http://www.samuday.in/blog/2011/04/discontinuation_video_cal... or the discussion on Facebook Developer's Forum: http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=95475 http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=95475
- gsharma 15y ago
  I thought about it, but blog post didn't have the URL context.

andyv88 15y ago

Perhaps 'Window Cill' will soon lose their vanity URL too, if the vibes reference in Facebook video calling reference is true! http://www.facebook.com/vibes http://www.facebook.com/vibes

gsharma 15y ago
Most likely. Even Kevin Celebi can lose it too. https://www.facebook.com/musicvibes https://www.facebook.com/musicvibes

parfe 15y ago

I'm currently watching the Yankees game. Jeter had a chance for his 3000th hit (looks like only he'll only hit 2998 tonight). Anyway I found myself with Facebook, Google Plus and Twitter all open at various times, but what I was really looking for was a chatroom with a persistent feel and a sense of temporary community/familiarity. Basically IRC, but easily discoverable topic based channels. IRC requires too much foreknowledge about servers and channels to find an active one on a whim. Twitter is screaming into a void. Facebook requires me to already know the people (Yankees and Jeter page don't allow comments). I can't tell if ad hoc group chat is generic or requires me to invite participants. I thought Google Sparks would be the answer, but that just seems to be a news feed. Battle.net had a nice solution where channels had a cap on people joined and they would just overflow to the topic-n+1 channel. Anyone know of a feature like that? Maybe message rate limits on channels to know when to overflow new joiners into a topic-n+1 channel (or join them to a stagnating channel)? Am I missing anything with the current services? Wow that was a rambling post.