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Facebook Offers Live Video Chat

Posted - 07 July 2011 by Jake Jones

Just under a week ago, we at Urban Media were all asking the same question: how long would it be before Facebook offers live video chat in retaliation to Google's new social media platform, Google+? The answer was less than a week.

Mark Zukerberg, founder of Facebook, announced in yesterday's press conference that they would be offering live video chat powered by VOIP giants Skype across the board and that the option to download the required software would be available to its users over the next couple of days.

The announcement was accompanied by the news that Facebook would also be launching a new live group chat function - another one of Google+'s features that was unique for a couple of seconds - and a brand new chat interface. All that in just six days' work. And on the seventh day, Zukerberg rested...

You can read more about the new features here.

Tags: facebook, skype, zukerberg, voip, google+, urban media, internet marketing

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08 August 2011 12:08 Elton Says:

This has to have yet another plus side for mobile web. With Facebook doing video chat and Google, this will lead to more smartphone users using the 'app' versions of these sites to make mobile to mobile video calls.

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