Facebook announced rolling out Skype integration into their chat service and a new look for their chat client with group chats. Facebook’s Skype video chat allows you to make only one-to-one video calls. Because Skype is charging on group video calls. Google Hangouts allows to setup video calls for up to 10 simultaneous users, and it’s free. The main video stream is automatically switched depending on who is talking at the moment. Here we made one comparison between Facebook with Skype and Google with Hangout.
Facebook with Skype
– Only person-to-person.
– Group messaging.
– Doesn’t notify you of a call, unlike Skype stand alone.
– No group video chat.
– Can’t talk outside of Facebook friends.
– The screen stays on top and making difficult to take other tabs.
– No notification for incoming calls.
– Video quality is fair
Google+ Hangout
– Circles make organization easy.
– Hangouts (up to 10 people in one video chat).
– Group video chat.
– Group chat.
– One on one video chat.
– Chat integrated into most Google products (gmail, android, etc.)
– Group watch a Youtube video.
– Chat focuses on the person talking.
– Fair video quality
– Doesn’t have the integration of the Google apps yet.
– Doesn’t have 750 million users like Facebook.
Overall, this new features from Facebook and Skype doesn’t seem as impressive as Google Hangouts, Because the lack of group video calling. In my review I found Goolge+ Hangout is better. What you think ?
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The main reason why Google leads Facebook is that
Google is well established and Facebook is still a minnow. Even if
Google+ fails, Google won’t incur huge losses because it will cover all
its monetary issues with other services like Adwords, Adsense etc.
Facebook is just a Social Networking Website and is at par with Orkut,
Buzz and Google+ while on the other hand Google is ‘Giant’. It can
swallow Facebook as a whole just as Facebook did to other small social
networking websites i.e. Myspace and Friendster with one successful
launch or either ways. So, just wait and watch. This is the war of a
Crocodile and a Frog 😉