{"id":370,"date":"2011-07-06T17:29:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T21:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/?p=370"},"modified":"2011-07-06T17:29:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T21:29:48","slug":"video-chat-is-now-a-feature-not-a-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/video-chat-is-now-a-feature-not-a-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Chat is Now a Feature, Not a Product"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried out the new Facebook Video chat. \u00a0It worked great &#8212; there was a small download\/install, but after that, it was click-and-go.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really wondering what Skype gets out of this. \u00a0Facebook&#8217;s chat is not integrated with Skype at all, and you only briefly see a Skype logo when the video chat starts. \u00a0How is Skype worth N billion when video chat is now a Facebook feature? \u00a0I know Skype has some good technology (esp. with firewall traversal), but how hard is it this days to implement robust video chat?<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: \u00a0Skype has a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.skype.com\/en\/2011\/07\/under_the_hood_facebook_video.html\">nice blog post<\/a> on how the integration works.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I really wish Facebook would invest more in their mobile apps: \u00a0getting them current with video calling, and rolling out an iPad app (please!).<\/p>\n<p>When Facebook brings multi-user video chat to the iPad, it&#8217;s &#8220;game over&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried out the new Facebook Video chat. \u00a0It worked great &#8212; there was a small download\/install, but after that, it was click-and-go. I&#8217;m really wondering what Skype gets out of this. \u00a0Facebook&#8217;s chat is not integrated with Skype at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/video-chat-is-now-a-feature-not-a-product\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}