Chatroulette for Google Hangouts? You bet.

#1

Post by webinsiders » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 2:35 PM UTC

Looks like the chatroulette bubble is starting again with a PlusRoulette for Google Hangouts, this could get interesting!

Chatroulette for Google Hangouts? You bet.
plusroulette.com

Re: Chatroulette for Google Hangouts? You bet.

#2

Post by webinsiders » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 2:36 PM UTC

Since Google allows 10 people in a Google Plus Hangout, it'll be pretty neat joining a random group of 10 strangers!

Re: Chatroulette for Google Hangouts? You bet.

#3

Post by nextparadigms » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 2:43 PM UTC

I like the serendipity of Hangout. If you do it for your friends circles, you could meet new people through your friends (because their friends will see they joined a Hangout). So it's very much like in real life where you meet with a group of friends and they introduce you to some of their friends.

Re: Chatroulette for Google Hangouts? You bet.

#4

Post by aldridmc » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 3:48 PM UTC

webinsiders wrote: post #2

Since Google allows 10 people in a Google Plus Hangout, it'll be pretty neat joining a random group of 10 strangers!

http://gphangouts.com is way way better than this thing! Even has a bookmarklet to easily add whilst browsing Google Plus.

Re: Chatroulette for Google Hangouts? You bet.

#5

Post by omaranto » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 4:30 PM UTC

webinsiders wrote: post #2

Since Google allows 10 people in a Google Plus Hangout, it'll be pretty neat joining a random group of 10 strangers!

That would be neat, but you'll have to be satisfied with joining a group of at most 9 strangers...

Re: Chatroulette for Google Hangouts? You bet.

#6

Post by webinsiders » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 5:24 PM UTC

nextparadigms wrote: post #3

I like the serendipity of Hangout. If you do it for your friends circles, you could meet new people through your friends (because their friends will see they joined a Hangout). So it's very much like in real life where you meet with a group of friends and they introduce you to some of their friends.

Very true. I guess plusroulette is more spontaneous.

Re: Chatroulette for Google Hangouts? You bet.

#7

Post by fredoliveira » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 6:57 PM UTC

omaranto wrote: post #5

webinsiders wrote: post #2

Since Google allows 10 people in a Google Plus Hangout, it'll be pretty neat joining a random group of 10 strangers!

That would be neat, but you'll have to be satisfied with joining a group of at most 9 strangers...

Some people are strangers to themselves.

Re: Chatroulette for Google Hangouts? You bet.

#8

Post by andor » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 7:53 PM UTC

I recently had a "Google+ Chatroulette" session with a few friends through gphangouts.com. It was fun, but most of the participants weren't interested in taking part and just watched us talking. Between 70 and 80 people joined the hangout, half of those either had their camera disabled or had no camera at all. We managed to have only one conversation with a stranger that lasted over 5 minutes.

Re: Chatroulette for Google Hangouts? You bet.

#9

Post by mvkel » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 3:53 PM UTC

Umm. "Hey, let's maximize our one-day traffic spike by polluting our pages with AdWords to the point where it's impossible to tell what is a legitimate interface element!"

First impressions are everything, and this spammed-up approach is ruining any long-term gains you really should be shooting for.