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Google+ Hangouts May Have Gotten Good Enough to Lure Facebookers
- gurkendoktor 15y agoThe article is confusing. Why does it mention Facebook right in the headline? Hangouts looks like a replacement for Skype and real life. I can only imagine an effect on Facebook if G+ lures many people into moving their personal face-to-face social time online. That said, Skype needs competition, so I don't mind...
- illumen 15y agoPeople use skype and facebook for the same problem - keeping in contact with family and friends.
- gurkendoktor 15y agoRight. Then why is it luring Facebook users, not Skype users, or business users that don't use FB right now? I think the headline implies the wrong premise again, that FB and G+ cannot co-exist. I think they can and will.
- nextparadigms 15y agoBecause it may be Google+'s "killer app", just like the wall or whatever was Facebook's killer app. Google+ may bring social networks closer to reality, through social video-chatting (and by social, I mean like in real life, doing it in groups).
- exit 15y agostrange that the hangouts api doesn't support simple message broadcasting. instead it maintains a shared state object. anyone know why? you could hack message broadcasting on top of the state object but that seems awkward.
- Angostura 15y agoI'm not sure about Facebookers, but as someone who was about to sign up for a (fairly expensive) Webinar package, it has at least given me pause for thought.
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- steverb 15y agoHangouts has lured most of my team to Google +, at least for quick stand-up type meetings. I have two guys who have Google Apps accounts and can't yet use Google + for whatever oddball reason that Google hasn't fixed that.