Facebooks nya inställningar?

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6 juli 2011 kl. 20:15

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(CNN) -- Facebook on Wednesday announced a video calling feature that will be provided by Skype, the well-known Internet video chat program.

The move comes shortly after Google launched a competing social network that also features a video chatting program.

The new chat feature will show up on Facebook as a "call" button at the top of every user's profile page. By clicking that button, Facebook users can talk to each other over webcams. That feature has already been rolled out to some users and will continue to become available to others, the company said.

This is "the world's easiest one-click way" to chat over video, Facebook engineer Philip Su said at a press conference Wednesday.

Facebook also announced updates to its text chat features, including a way for users to chat with several of their friends at once. And the company updated the total number of people who are using the site to 750 million.

That move also seems to mirror a feature of Google+, Google's new social network, which is seen by some as a genuine competitor to Facebook.

A video feature called "Hangouts" lets Google+ users chat over video with several friends at once. The new network also has a feature called "Circles," which lets people organize their friend lists into groups.

Facebook's new video feature does not allow for group chats.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, took subtle jabs at the new Google network, saying Facebook provides the best way for people to organize their friends into groups -- with minimal effort.

"If you think about it, it makes it so that your networking community can do the work of organizing your communities for you. You don't have to curate," he said.

He also defended the company's one-on-one video chat.

"The vast majority of video chat is one-on-one chat. ... I just think this is super-awesome," Zuckerberg said.

Källa: http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/07/06/facebook.announcement/index.html?hpt=te_bn2

Vad tycker ni ecare om facebooks nya uppdateringar? För er som inte har uppmärksammat dem så är de;
Group Chat - man kan lägga till andra vänner i chatfönstret
New Design - man kan ha en vännerlista till höger av fönstret
Video Call - man kan videochatta genom facebook mha skype (utan att installera skype)

Facebooks blogg sammanfattat av Marks tal. (enligt mej var det dödande.)

"Over the last year, the messages team has been working to make it easier to have one on one conversations with your friends. In November, we launched the new messages, which brings together your chats, texts, emails and messages all in one place.

Today I'm excited to introduce video calling and other improvements to chat.

See The Friends You Message Most

The new chat design includes a sidebar that lists the people you message most. Now it's easier to find your friends and start a conversation. The sidebar adjusts with the size of your browser window, and it automatically appears when the window is wide enough.

Create a Group Chat Instantly

We're also launching multi-person chat, which is one of our most requested features. Now when your friends can't figure out what movie to see, you can just add them to a chat and decide together. To include more friends in your conversation, simply select Add Friends to Chat.

And just like your other chats, the history of your conversation is available in messages.

Bring Your Conversations to Life

Video chat has been around for years now, but it's still not an everyday activity for most people. Sometimes it's too difficult to set up, or the friends you want to talk to are on different services.

So a few months ago, we started working with Skype to bring video calling to Facebook. We built it right into chat, so all your conversations start from the same place. To call your friend, just click the video call button at the top of your chat window.

Talk to friends around the world right from Facebook.

For those of us who have been working on this, it's particularly exciting to bring video calling to over 750 million people. We're making this available in over 70 different languages, so friends can stay in touch all over the world.

Video calling will be available to everyone over the next few weeks, but if you don't want to wait, you can get it now.

Philip Su, an engineer on the video calling team, will be making his first video call to his parents back in Maryland"

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