Facebook Announces Video Calling and Ad-Hoc Group Chat
Update (2): If you don’t want to wait until a link to the new Video Call service appears on your Facebook page, click this URL and you can begin using Facebook’s video chat right now.
Update: The Live Facebook Event Has Ended.
A replay of Mark Zuckerberg’s talk and introduction of the new Facebook services is available here
Fast Facts
- Facebook now has more than 750 million users
- Users share 4 billion things each day via Facebook
- “Ad-Hoc” Group Text Chat (Roll Out Begins Today)
- New Chat Design (Adapts to Size of Screen)
- One-to-One Video Calls (Powered by Skype)
- “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.”
- Facebook Stresses Ease of Getting Online
Read the Formal Announcement From Facebook
Coverage from Search Engine Land (Review of entire event including Q&A)
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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