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If you can't run Skype and other instant messangers, interenet experience is going to be incomplete. I wonder of they are going to do something about it.
by ntoshev 17y ago
If you can't run Skype and other instant messangers, interenet experience is going to be incomplete. I wonder of they are going to do something about it.
- rscott 17y agoMeebo works for IM. Only a matter of time before there is a Skype webapp, I'd assume.
- qeorge 17y agoNot saying a Skype web app is impossible, but I haven't seen a web apps that can effectively do p2p, which is essential to Skype.
- fungi 17y agothink skype is splitting the linux gui from backend. so maybe when that come to fruition a web app would be easier.
- davidalln 17y agoWith HTML 5 browsers should be able to access CPU processing power and other parts of the computer previously available to only native applications. So this is possible.
- steveklabnik 17y agoNot sure other than GChat.
- macrael 17y agoGChat does do video.
- abossy 17y agoWhere do you draw the line? I'd love text editors and RescueTime as well. My hope is that Google will succeed in driving innovation on the Web and these types of apps will become first-class citizens.
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- ntoshev 17y agoRight now all netbooks sold out there have a camera and it is mostly used for video calls with Skype. I don't think netbook manufacturers would give such a major feature up. I see Google has videochat in GMail with a browser add-on, perhaps it will come pre-installed with Chrome OS but it would still have little installed base.
- riffic 17y agogoogle doesn't want you running skype; they want you running google talk (which is better because it's open)
- sker 17y agoI don't think a product X is better than a product Y just because it's open. That doesn't work for me.
- selven 17y agoNo, but openness has a lot of advantages. It means that it's free, it's guaranteed to be supported by someone even if the founders all go away, you can trust it more since everyone can look at the source, and so on.
- iuyhgbn 17y agoYou can't see the code inside Google's network so even though the client app is open you have no more proof that all your calls aren't being streamed to Langley or Beijing than you do with skype. An you can't have pay for service like calls to 'real' phones because if the billing was done in the client you could simply remove it, forcing all the billing to be done at their servers - which makes it much more expensive.
- thwarted 17y agoXMPP is an open protocol. There are encryption extensions. Gtalk is used for routing, so it's route-around-able if you have concerns about snooping, still letting you communicate with grandma's gtalk account who doesn't have concerns about the FBI. This is much harder to do with software like Skype (especially considering the obfuscation that has gone into hiding the operation of the Skype code). An you can't have pay for service like calls to 'real' phones because if the billing was done in the client you could simply remove it, forcing all the billing to be done at their servers - which makes it much more expensive. You mean like how land lines and cell phones do their billing on the provider's servers and don't do the billing in the phone itself because you could simply remove it?
- ThinkWriteMute 17y agoMeebo.com
- cpr 17y agoThey said that they're going to make sure that web apps have full access to video (camera), audio, etc.