Re: [us-marketing] google plus as telecon...

Google Plus Hangouts are built on a technology called WebRTC, which is open source and will be 
integrated in more browsers over time. So, I think it's a promising direction to go.

http://www.webrtc.org/home

I think we should give it a try for our purposes.

-Ben

On Aug 13, 2011, at 12:03 PM, C. Olofson wrote:

> Hello US Marketing;
>
> So far, we've test-driven IRC and Mumble for our meetings.  Recently, I've been playing around 
> with Google plus:  It has a video conference function called  "hangout" which (I believe) 
> supports up to 10 people.
>
> Although it is a video-conferencing tool, it doesn't require a camera for just the audio portion. 
>  A few questions:
>
> 1. Has anyone tried hangout and, if so, what were the results?
> 2. Would you be willing to join Google Plus & use hangout?
>
> It ain't exactly open sauce but, then again, it's probably a step in the right direction (away 
> from Skype).
>
> thanks,
> -Craig
>
>
>
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