Facebook Video Chat

Facebook announced a new feature to their site which involved video-calling and group chat in collaboration with Skype. This new feature involved giving current Facebook chat users the ability to video call their friends. They will be rolling out these features automatically over the next few weeks. If you don’t want to wait for these products, you can get it now. http://www.facebook.com/videocalling You can also create an ad-hoc group by adding more than one Facebook friend in the Facebook chat interface.

 

Click on the name of contact you want to chat with and then click on the Video calling icon in the chat window. You will be prompted to download a plugin for your browser. This is only a one-time process, so you will be able to video chat in the future without having to install this plugin again

 

The other feature announced was the ability to find people to chat with easier. Given that you have the available screen space, you can now see a ‘buddy list’ of Facebook friends. This will allow you more easily find the people you want to chat with.

 

Google Takeout

Google has unveiled yet another product at google.com/takeout which allows users to export their data out of Google for all Google products they are currently using. Additionally, all the data is made available in open and portable formats so it’s really easy to import them on other services.

 

 

Google takeout works with Google buzz, Google profile, Picasa web albums, Google Contacts and Google circles while support for more products is a work in progress. Using the tool is fairly simple, head over to the Google takeout page, sign in with your Google account and choose the products for whom you want to export the data.

Org Chart Of All The Major Tech Companies

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/big-tech-org-charts-2011-6

Google + project announced

 

Google introduced Google+ social network for what it called 'real-life sharing.' The UI might look cooler (it does) but this won’t necessarily make it more attractive for social interaction. Drag-and-drop is grossly overrated as a UI interaction metaphor – many regular users have never used drag&drop. What is good about Facebook is that it “just works” without any setup effort. You see a continuous stream of thoughts from your friends, with no interactions from you, other than an occasional “confirm friend” or “add friend”. Plus, non-shy people can also post a link/text once in a while, whenever they feel like it. I don’t see that in Google+

Windows Phone: Mango version

 

Windows Phone next version is called Mango which has around 500 new features which focuses mostly on 3 key areas…Communications, apps and Internet. Following are the new features in each of these 3 areas…

 

Communications: Easier to connect and share

Threads, Groups, Deeper social network integration, Linked Inbox and Hands free messaging.

 

A smarter approach to Apps

Appconnect, Improved Live Tiles and Multitasking.

 

Internet

Internet Explorer 9, Local scout, Bing on windows phone and Quick cards,

 

Windows 8 demo

If you haven’t seen it already, may be you should. The video addresses many things in details and how windows 8 is going to change everything in tablet and pc market.

 

Skype & Microsoft

 

Microsoft has bought Skype for an imaginable amount, Skype has been sold with $8.5 Billion. It's not about Skype's current profit, but about how it can be combined with other things that Microsoft is doing. The three things that Microsoft might do with Skype is…

 

• Integrating Skype with XBOX and Kinect.
• Support Windows phone and wide variety of windows devices.
• Using skype to connect Lync users, outlook, xbox live, messenger and other workplace communications.

 

Lets hope it will be win-win situation for both the companies.