A few days ago, Google (GOOG) launched its extension of its Google Hangouts feature. Google Hangouts are essentially Skype calls over Google Plus, but unlike Skype they’re easy to use, it’s free to call people anywhere, and you can have more people in the same videochat.
What Google did a few days ago was lift the cap on the number of simultaneous viewers so that it’s either non-existent or sufficiently large that it usually doesn’t matter. This lets content producers use Google Plus as a broadcast medium so that they can reach more people than if they use it as a purely social medium.
Check out what Murray Newlands has to say about it below in Future of Engagement.
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Google is trying to get into pretty much everything, and this is just the latest foray! They tend to experiment for a while to see how it goes and then either keep it or ditch it!
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August 1, 2012 at 2:58 am
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July 12, 2012 at 6:08 am
But statistics show that almost all is neutral with this new breakthrough. Its either they don’t know yet its importance or it just doesn’t matter to them at all.
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This one boosted my interest for Google+. I already have an account with them but I found it boring because its redundant to Facebook. But since here comes a new feature, maybe I should reconsider my judgement.
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June 5, 2012 at 12:11 am
This is a good news for many of the business users who are using the Google Plus. This is a convenient way to achieve many prospective customers to your website. I salute to Google as the number one Search Engine. Also, many thanks to Murray Newlands who have shared this useful and good news.
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Its been a while since my last visit to your site, I have to admit I really don;t know the use of Google plus before, but now you have given me a great idea which I can use and adopt.
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That’s a great tool for Google + similar to Skype, Google is very smart and will give people what they want trying to catch this way Facebook
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May 11, 2012 at 1:25 am
I agree with Robert. Google adverts on the TV and on the net and still it seems that facebook is here to stay – well at least for the moment.
For a business point of view large video chats with unlimited viewers seems perfect. But again will people sit up and take note?
Just seems whatever google does it always gets sidelined to a point and so far even though its growing Google+ seems the same way. We use + for business but compared to our FB page its not very popular and seems hard getting fans etc
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May 8, 2012 at 8:41 am
I think this is a pretty cool idea for businesses if it takes off. I already use Google Plus for my business because it allows me to show up in the search results and such, so this could be a cool new way to connect with potential customers!
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May 8, 2012 at 8:39 am
I wonder if this will go the same way as the other social media platforms that Google has released…. I’ve used Gmail since about 2005 I think and so I’ve seen all of the different stuff that they’ve done. None of them have made much of a splash, so I wonder what will happen with this one.
From Google’s perspective, it has to be a bit of a bummer seeing such a large percentage of people remaining neutral to the new technology. Google is really pressing their involvement in social media, and yet people still seem to just not care enough at this time. I think eventually that graph will show a lot more green, but for now people seem pretty set on facebook/twitter/skype to handle the kinds of things Google is looking to take charge of.