Google Hangouts

'Babble' to consolidate Google's chat tools under one brand

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

‘Babble’ to consolidate Google’s chat tools under one brandGeek.com's Russell Holly: Google’s recent decision to block non-native XMPP requests is the first step towards building their own closed communications platform. In order to use Google’s chat service, especially the new …

Google's live 'Hangouts On Air' rolling out to everyone everywhere, and why it matters

Monday, May 14, 2012

I originally posted this to The Verge's Web & Social forum. Read the original forum post here. Google recently announced that, over the next several weeks, they’re rolling out the ability to livestream and record Hangouts to everyone. Shameless copy/paste of features: Broadcast publicly. By …