Joel Spolsky's help company did quite well. Not sure Google is technically capable of pulling this off, though. Was trying to use Hangouts all last weekend and

Joel Spolsky's help company did quite well. Not sure Google is technically capable of pulling this off, though. Was trying to use Hangouts all last weekend and half the people in the hangout couldn't get messages no matter what. The half we did get working involved bizarre dances of everyone going to each other's page to say hi before messages magically started coming through. All were shown as in the hangout, though. They threw out a good working system in Google Talk that even had people contacting me from other chat clients and platforms, like iPhone. Now they can't even get chatting inside their own platform working. I'm sure any effort by engineers to get this working would just immediately by quashed by the useless biz guys who control Google now.