Comments on: Google Upgrades Gmail Video Chat to Newer Google+ Hangout Technology

By: carlena

carlena — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 02:15:00 +0000

wth

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 07:55:00 +0000

They need to advertise, my friend who just bought an android device still won’t use the functionality of google+ but uses his gmail. Maybe now he’ll finally start using his the better points of google

By: Fatty Bunter

Fatty Bunter — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:52:00 +0000

They are doing everything they can do migrate things to google plus. No wonder the traffic there went up big time. Also, awesome, I love google plus and hangoouts.

By: mustbepbs

mustbepbs — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:34:00 +0000

You bet I do.

By: SchwannyT

SchwannyT — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:58:00 +0000

If you click on someone elses picture you can mute their mic (it makes a ding and puts a note at the top) but its really nice when someone leaves to go chase a screaming kid you can mute them (and it mutes them for everyone) while they are away and get on with it.
But yes having a moderator would be sweet for a more “presentation” type show. I like the group thing for hanging out with the family (6 has been my max), but to do training or other more professional stuff even if people had to vote a moderator or something would be nice to have the option

By: Jared Kotoff

Jared Kotoff — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:52:00 +0000

They don’t, but they do. They aired the GN ad. It wasn’t as flashy as apple ads to the general pop. Look at how much apple plays up ONE feature (a bad one at that), Siri, buy hiring famous actors to star in them. The general population is stupid and needs to be wowed. A “great video” and a “great ad” is completely different things. I think Google makes great videos, but not great ads.

By: Adam Truelove

Adam Truelove — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:48:00 +0000

You don’t really need to advertise to smart nerds like us, we already know everything about the phones. And Google doesn’t need to learn from Apple, they make great video advertisements, see them here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/googlenexus

They just don’t air them on TV.

By: ddevito

ddevito — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:32:00 +0000

If Google wanted to, they’d be able to bury Citrix’s WebEx into the ground. I often use Hangouts both personally and at work to share screens and view presentations (which is awesome because all the viewers need is a browser)

By: ddevito

ddevito — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:30:00 +0000

I think you will see them. Google is starting to put some muscle behind its advertising efforts. The new N7 commercial is a huge hit on TV.

By: Jared Kotoff

Jared Kotoff — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:01:00 +0000

I dont really video chat on pc. I dont really use G+ or have many friends on there so I usually use skype for that anyways. But that’s all personal preference.
But so agree, Also, google doesn’t seems to spotlight features that would “sell” the devices. Apple knows that people will actually buy a phone because of Siri and nothing else. While the GN commercial was cool. It didn’t sell it to the idiots. IMO they should have two ad campaign. Their usual one for smart people and then another one to sell to the general public.
If there’s one thing apple is the best at, its marketing. Google should learn from them.

By: John

John — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:00:00 +0000

Hah. Goes better with the image

By: Adam Truelove

Adam Truelove — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:56:00 +0000

You can use Google’s video chat to chat with someone using a PC too, you don’t need a phone. I use it to chat with the family when I’m out of town. I’m guessing things like Siri and FaceTime don’t get used a whole bunch, but those are still cool features that will sell a device or service. Google needs to start advertising more on TV.

By: Bill Lumbergh

Bill Lumbergh — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:48:00 +0000

Sounds like someone’s got a case of the Mondays…

By: Jared Kotoff

Jared Kotoff — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:48:00 +0000

My problem is i dont know enough people with front facing camera android phones. or the few i do i dont need/want to video chat with them, being nerds and all.
All iphone users are beautiful people so they all really enjoy looking at each other which is why FaceTime is so so much better.

By: supermiah

supermiah — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:45:00 +0000

Now if only they would do that with their products (Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 7, Nexus Q) they would KILL Apple so bad.