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Facebook and Google video chat differences

by kevinChou on Jul 11, 2011

A week after the launch of Google own social networking applications to test its video chat, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on July 6 also launch the joint video chat service with Skype.

It is much interestiing that Facebook and Google provides services with major differences. Facebook video chat is just one to one service, the company will treat this tool as an additional tool, "for most people, it does not belong to one of their daily activities."

A engineer from Facebook video calls team, Philip explained that the video chat is too difficult to establish, or the user would like to voice chat with friends using different services and can not establish a voice conversation.

But Google do not think so."With the launch of Google +, we hoped to congregate entertainment, flow lines and occasionally in one screen, so we created a Hangouts." Google director of real-time communications technology Justin said, "By chance encounter chat with more than a...Read More >>