Not about Google Video Chat
2008/11/12 filed under /webThere we have it. Now you can use your webcam (and microphone, or so I believe) with your chat client. Wow, amazing. While MSN Messenger and Y! Messenger have supported this since the beginning of times, now Google joins. Good.
But it get's better! It works from within your gmail box. So it's video conferencing through a website! Again, nothing new. Seriously. A website like imo.im supported multi-IM with cam capabilities already.
Have you ever heard about imo.im? Ever read about it in the news? I most certainly have never seen news reports on that service. But once your name is Google, every fart is interesting and so you must read about this non-original feature in their beta application everywhere.
Do we really need to read about this everywhere? It seriously sickens me. Look at the list of sites all blogging/reporting about this insanely stupid new feature: Cnet, TechCrunch, LifeHacker, ars technica, Gizmodo...
and even reuters and nu.nl (a rather big Dutch news website)
Seriously, STOP THE HYPE.
