Meh. Nothing much to see here. This looks like Google Chat - video calling, group chat, seeing who you last spoke to.
Facebook's Three New Products
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#22Get started at http://www.facebook.com/videocalling
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#23What? This is their "awesome" announcement? Is this some sort of a joke? Even techies aren't going to be interested in this, let alone normal users...
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#24What's the end game?
MS acquires fb?
Skype makes a killing off fb users for premium subscription and gives fb a cut?
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#25Is it me or does Zuckerberg really excel at being boring? I guess I don't watch many CEOs announce new products but that was painfully boring and pedantic.
I don't think it's Zuckerberg. It's just that what they launched today was lackluster and merely a response to G+.
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#26Looks like video chat is the hot new battleground again. Facebook Skype vs. video GChat vs. Apple FaceTime/iChat/iMessage vs. Microsoft Skype(?)
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Facebook doesn't need to have competitive features they only need to have comparative features. Google+ has video chat, now Facebook does. It doesn't matter that Hangout is better. People don't switch social networks based on any single feature.
Do you really think that attitude will allow them to maintain their dominance?
I think the proper question should be "For how long do you really think that attitude will allow them to maintain their dominance?". Maybe Facebook is in the positions where playing catch-up is good enough for them in the midterm.
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#28Given their social networking dominance, their swimming pools filled with vc money, and the top engineers working for them, does anyone else feel like Facebook are underachievers? Considering they had to have known about G+ for a while before it launched, you would think they would really hit something out of the park in terms of competitive features. These are all pretty lackluster, imho.
The video features built into gchat have served my needs perfectly. Between hangouts & youtube video sharing, I think google+ is out-shining them at this point in time.
The video features built into gchat have served my needs perfectly
1) The average person knows more people on Facebook, then people with a Gmail account.
2) You, and your other geeky friends live in Gmail. The rest of the world lives inside Facebook.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Facebook doesn't need to have competitive features they only need to have comparative features. Google+ has video chat, now Facebook does. It doesn't matter that Hangout is better. People don't switch social networks based on any single feature.
Do you really think that attitude will allow them to maintain their dominance?
What do you think Facebook should have built/announced?
Pretty much all of the really useful features are also big privacy violators, and with the uncertainty around how the public views social networking privacy, FB is smart to wait and let Google make the first move.
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#30What's the end game? MS acquires fb? Skype makes a killing off fb users for premium subscription and gives fb a cut?
MS can't/doesn't need to acquire facebook. they have a large stake in the company due to their early stage $270m investment. Facebook is too expensive at this point for MS to buy.