Thursday, July 07, 2011

Facebook Introduces Video Chat in a Partnership With Skype - NYTimes.com

A timely Facebook/Google+ reality check.  However, it’s tbd if multi-party desktop video a la Google hangouts is going to be a near-term mainstream hit.

Danny Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Land, an industry blog, said Facebook’s new service at least lets the company counter Google’s move with its video chat. But in the end, he said, video chatting has been widely available for years in a variety of ways, like through instant messaging services, Skype and Apple’s FaceTime.

“I didn’t get the impression that people were finding it difficult to find one-to-one video chatting if they wanted to,” Mr. Sullivan said. “This potentially makes it easier for more people to get going, but I don’t see it as that hard to begin with.”

Facebook Introduces Video Chat in a Partnership With Skype - NYTimes.com

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