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Not about Google Video Chat

2008/11/12 filed under /web

There 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.

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Posted by: B10m | permanent link | comments (5)

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BOK wrote at 2008-11-12 15:02:

Stop bashing the big G! They make great beta-products, just like the big M from Redmond. Take it or leave it...

Dan Dascalescu wrote at 2008-11-14 06:15:

I hadn't heard about imo.im so I visited it after reading this post. A barebones site saying nowhere that they could do video chat. That's only mentioned in the help.

Imagine a passer-by seeing that site. Why would they even bother logging in, when meebo and webmessenger exist already? With this kind of presentation, of course imo.im don't have much of a following.

B10m wrote at 2008-11-14 08:58:

@Dan

I'm not saying imo.im is perfect or even better than google's version. All I'm trying to point out is that when this site got released, no major blogs (or even reuters) cared.

When google does the same, the world get's flooded with the "news" up until you're truly annoyed by it. Are they blogging about a new feature or simply about google?

Mayur wrote at 2008-12-05 18:31:

Haha absolutely agreed to this post. But again it's the big G, when you blog about it you get visits, or do you ?

Matthew Lesh wrote at 2008-12-14 10:42:

Your only adding to the hype by writing this right? So you obviously just as 'bad' or 'good' as other watching Google's every movement.

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