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alt="" height="104" width="104"></a>Unless
you've been completely disconnected from the
Internet, radio, TV, and print media for the past
week or so, you've heard about Google+, the new
social media project that will compete with
Facebook. You may not have heard much, however,
about the group video chat service, called
Hangouts, that's part of the Google+ project. And
even if you have heard about Hangouts, you might
not know about the technology that runs it - but
there's a lot going on in the background of
Hangouts that could finally bring group video
meetings into the mainstream. If you've ever tried
to use current free video chat services for a
serious meeting (we have), you know that there is
room for improvement. Google may have just done
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/234807/google_hangouts_video_chat_could_challenge_skype.html">Google+
Hangouts video chat could challenge Skype</a>
(PCWorld/Brennon Slattery) "Google+ Hangouts can
hold 10 people in the same video chat room
simultaneously. While Skype 5.0 Beta 2 can do
the same, video conferencing on Skype requires a
Premium membership that ranges from $4.49 to
$8.99 per month. Worse yet, Skype 5.0 Beta 2 is
Windows-only at the moment, whereas Google+
Hangouts, like Gmail video chat, is
browser-based and doesn't discriminate against
any OS or requires an additional download."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://juberti.blogspot.com/2011/06/announcing-google-hangouts.html">Announcing
Google+ Hangouts</a> (juberjabber/Justin
Uberti) "To support Hangouts, we built an
all-new standards-based cloud video conferencing
platform. This platform combines high quality,
low latency, and strong security with the ease
of use of a web application. Through the
efficiency of this new platform, we're able to
deliver a leading video conferencing experience
at Google scale."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://gigaom.com/video/google-hangouts-technology/">The
technology behind Google+ Hangouts</a>
(GigaOM/Janko Roettgers) "This is where things
get really interesting: Hangout's cloud-based
architecture and its upcoming browser
integration will eventually make it possible to
deliver an optimized group video chat experience
to a whole range of devices. Desktop users will
get to view full HD video, users on mobile
devices will receive optimized streams to deal
with bandwidth issues. And Google TV users could
see Hangouts appear on their TV sets sooner than
they think, because Google TV comes with a
full-blown Chrome browser."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.avidcareerist.com/2011/06/28/google-hangouts-the-next-new-virtual-interview-technology/">Google+
Hangouts: the next new virtual interview
technology</a> (AvidCareerist/Donna Svei) "Of
greatest interest to job seekers? Google+
Hangouts—free instant video conferencing with up
to 10 participants. Expect some recruiters to
start scheduling your virtual interviews here.
And... job hunt clubs are most effective with a
group of peers. Now you aren't limited to your
home town."</li>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Techie
fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">Hangouts
will use the <a href="http://www.webrtc.org/">WebRTC</a>
framework for <a
href="http://searchunifiedcommunications.techtarget.com/definition/real-time-communications">realtime
communications</a>, an open source project
supported by Google, Mozilla, and Opera.
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