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Google Hangouts, Gmail Chat and Google Spreadsheets Go Down
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Re: Google Hangouts, Gmail Chat and Google Spreadsheets Go Down
#32Just got an email from Google on my grandfathered free Apps account encouraging me to upgrade to "ensure 99.9% uptime". Excellent timing, guys.
Same: "Get 99.9% guaranteed uptime for Gmail and other business features"
Very poor timing.
Re: Google Hangouts, Gmail Chat and Google Spreadsheets Go Down
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
The nice thing about WebRTC is that video chat services have exploded. I've been using https://appear.in/ lately. It couldn't be simpler to start group video chats.
How do these typically compare to Skype or Hangouts in terms of video and sound quality?
From a subjective standpoint: perfectly.
From a technical standpoint: I believe Hangouts is moving to WebRTC soon as well.
Re: Google Hangouts, Gmail Chat and Google Spreadsheets Go Down
#34So the status page ( http://www.google.com/appsstatus ) mentions that Hangouts isn't covered by an SLA. Is that still true if you bought one of the Chromebox for Meetings which when discussed sounded like it used the same infrastructure? Or are those Hangouts actually Google Talk and not G+ Hangouts? And how stupid is it that that is something resembling a decent question?
Talk is still covered in the SLA, Hangouts is not.
Don't ask me to explain what PHB came up with that logic.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do these typically compare to Skype or Hangouts in terms of video and sound quality?
From a subjective standpoint: perfectly. From a technical standpoint: I believe Hangouts is moving to WebRTC soon as well.
What about from a security standpoint? How safe are these web applications, and how confident can I be they're not logging audio or video from my calls? I'm not talking about government intelligence security, I'm talking about not appearing in my pajamas on the pirate bay.
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#36Where are all the SREs now? Cowering in fear.
Re: Google Hangouts, Gmail Chat and Google Spreadsheets Go Down
#37Just got an email from Google on my grandfathered free Apps account encouraging me to upgrade to "ensure 99.9% uptime". Excellent timing, guys.
30 minutes out of a year is less than .1%
Re: Google Hangouts, Gmail Chat and Google Spreadsheets Go Down
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
From a subjective standpoint: perfectly. From a technical standpoint: I believe Hangouts is moving to WebRTC soon as well.
What about from a security standpoint? How safe are these web applications, and how confident can I be they're not logging audio or video from my calls? I'm not talking about government intelligence security, I'm talking about not appearing in my pajamas on the pirate bay.
If both parties can get a raw socket in, then it's peer to peer... otherwise it's via proxy.
Re: Google Hangouts, Gmail Chat and Google Spreadsheets Go Down
#39Amusingly, with Hangouts down, Skype video chats have become unusable. Time to move to Jitsi[1]? [1] https://jitsi.org/
for those like me :) to whom it's not obvious: how come?
Skype is from Microsoft and Hangouts is from Google, right?!
Thank you for your patience in the face of my utterly stunning cluelessness.
Re: Google Hangouts, Gmail Chat and Google Spreadsheets Go Down
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about from a security standpoint? How safe are these web applications, and how confident can I be they're not logging audio or video from my calls? I'm not talking about government intelligence security, I'm talking about not appearing in my pajamas on the pirate bay.
If both parties can get a raw socket in, then it's peer to peer... otherwise it's via proxy.
I would say, you always have to trust the service provider. While you can manually verify a direct end-to-end connection etc., web apps could always easily change, without user notice. Well, but that's also true for any proprietary app that isn't open source and code-reviewed.
It could be a browser feature in the future to sandbox those webcam data so that it's only transfered to a specific opponent. That has some problems to solve and is just a raw thought.