FIR co-hosts Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz were joined by friends of FIR Kami Watson Huyse (of Zoetica), Lionel Menchaca (chief blogger for Dell) and Bryan Person (of LiveWorld) for a test drive of Google+ Hangout, the social network’s video conferencing service.
The experience was far from perfect and this video has been edited heavily so you don’t have to sit through the gaps and gaffes. Thanks to Bryan Person for capturing the screencast.
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(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)
2 responses to “FIR Plus: A test drive of Google+Hangout”
Nice video. I like the Google hang out, very innovative video features.
This is awesome!!! The more social networking sites like Google+ and the new myspace popping up, the better for my new gig, awesomize.me ? Social media is here to stay for good. Given vast variety of the existing channels to choose and stick with, it’s time for such a hot space to enter into a new category. Here is my 2cents on this whole internet -> search Engine -> Social media things and my rational on why there is a need for a portal to provide a quick and intelligent decision for both the consumer and the companies about their online connections. A Platform to Help us to Distinguish Our Quality vs. Quantity Friends, Fans, Followers, and Companies:
– Early 90s: WWW was born…
– By mid 90?s: millions of sites popped up on the Web…
– Mid – late 90s: Yahoo & Google were born to help us to find the right information of the right pages on the Web…
– Early 2000: Social media was born…
– Late 2000: Millions of pages created by people, companies, and organizations on all these social media channels.
– 2011: Deja vu all over again… we are back to early 90’s
That is why I built awesomize.me to accomplish such a mission – the portal to all your existing social media channels.
Elias
CEO & Founder
http://awesomize.me